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Incorporating Intersectional Gender Analysis
into Research on Infectious Diseases of Poverty
A toolkit for health researchers
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Objectives
The following subsections respond to each of these objectives, leaving the reader with some key questions and literature sources to consider after reading this module.
• Explore how intersectional gender analysis questions can be used as entry points for further understanding the role of gender in health outcomes and experiences
• Discuss how intersectional gender analysis questions can be developed to inform overall study objectives, questions, indicators and hypotheses, and/or data collection and analysis
• Describe activities to facilitate the development of intersectional gender analysis questions, including creating an intersectional gender analysis matrix, the use of broad gender analysis questions, and mapping gender analysis questions against relevant infectious diseases domains
Intersectional gender analysis activities included in module 4:
• Develop intersectional gender analysis questions to inform overall study objectives, questions, indicators and hypotheses, and/or data collection tools and analysis
Contents
4.1 Intersectional gender analysis questions as entry points for further understanding
4.1.1 Developing gender analysis questions
4.1.2 Developing an intersectional gender analysis matrix
4.1.3 Intersectional gender analysis questions for research on infectious diseases of poverty
4.2 Developing gender-sensitive indicators
4.2.1 Incorporating intersectional gender analysis questions into data collection tools
