Without a foundation of gender equality, health infrastructure everywhere will continue to crumble

Health workers, especially women, reported high levels of burnout and moral distress during the COVID-19 pandemic, with many leaving the field all together.

As governments work to rebuild the health architecture that crumbled during the pandemic, they have an opportunity to draw a new blueprint that incorporates gender equality at every level, writes Julia Anderson, the CEO of the Canadian Partnership for Women and Children’s Health.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY JULIA ANDERSON, JULIA ANDERSON

April 24, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic taught most of us a lesson that health-care workers have long known: ‘just’ enough is not enough.

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