Gender Equity

by Dr. Ala Nazir, DEJ lead Global Surgery at the Commission on the Status of Women - Part 1 March in New York carries a particular energy . Outside the United Nations, 193 flags line First Avenue, still managing to feel symbolic even after you have walked past them several times. Inside, the corridors fill early. Delegates, mission representatives, civil society advocates, youth delegates who have practised their two-minute interventions until the words arrive without hesitation. For some,...

by Dr. Eros Tsegaye, MD MPH - GEIGS Advocacy Member The Early Stage of the Motherhood Penalty She had done everything right. The day began as it always did. At a busy university teaching hospital in Africa, after the early-morning session with the resident doctors, she walked back to her office. She hung her white coat on the coat rack by the door, wiped her desk with a soft cloth, and opened her laptop. Emails waited, documents needed signatures, and the quiet rhythm of the day began again....

Three Stories Out of the Unheard Millions, by Eman Jawed (Advocacy Council Member) In surgical corridors around the world, there is a kind of work that never appears on an operative note or a training logbook. It does not get counted in publications, nor does it fit into the tidy boxes of “service” or “education.” It is invisible, emotional, physical, moral , and overwhelmingly carried by women . It is the labour that keeps global surgery running, even when it breaks the women who provide...