Intersectionality in Healthcare Assignment 2022

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Inter-sectionality is the branch of feminism which do the identification of different
aspects of social and political discrimination which overlap the gender. This is completely a non-
empirical qualitative framework which identifies how the interlocking systems of power effect
those people who are at the most marginalized in the society (Corus and Saatcioglu, 2015,
pp.415-429). Different forms of social stratification like class, race, age, religion, creed and
sexual orientation were included in the consideration of the intersectional feminism. The social
and cultural effects of considering class, race and religion were also considered (Shin et al.,
2017, p.458.). The inter-sectionality is a theoretical framework which puts forward the fact that
several social categories interact at the micro level of the individual experiences for reflecting on
the multiple interlocking systems of the privilege and interact with oppression at the macro,
social-structural levels (AIHW 2015). The assignment is a reflective essay through which I am
describing about the different discrimination that I suffered as I belong from Nepali (Asian) male
dominated society and belonging from a CALD background.
The inter-sectionality concept is illuminating on the dynamics which have already been
overlooked by the feminist theories and movements. The framework challenged the notion that
the primary factor of determining the women’s fate was gender (Chan, Cor and Band, 2018,
pp.58-73). Inter-sectionality inspires critical reflection which allow the researchers or the
decision makers to move far beyond the single category which are typically favored in the equity
driven analysis like gender and the gender based analysis and also about several determinants of
health found in the assessments of the health impacts for considering the complex interactions
and relationships among the social locations like indignity, sexuality, expressions of the genders,
age, religion and the status of immigration (Himmelstein, Puhl and Quinn, 2017, pp.421-431).
The gender identity, sex and sexual orientation are describes who we are as people belong from

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multiple cultural identities or locations. The intersectional perspectives give importance on how
the identity of gender, sexual orientation articulate with multiple other dimensions of identity.
This framework examine the interactions between the identities of gender and the sexual
orientation with dominations with other identities. I belong from an Asian male dominated
culture, where the female have to obey and follow the instructions of the males of the society.
The gender normativity explains the enormous pressure that people face to confirm to the
cultural and societal expectations regarding the behavior of both the genders and their
performances. The females are defined to be intuitive, caring and nurturing and the males are
considered to be stronger, economically capable and more rational.
The attitudes, beliefs and values of any person are affected by the assumptions and also
affects about how a person is going to take care of the patient and also it affects the different
practices of taking care of the patient. A person start developing values, beliefs and attitudes
since childhood only and are greatly influenced by the family, class, religion, ethnicity and
schooling. I have learnt to develop values, beliefs and attitudes since childhood only. One of the
important thing which hamper the service of health care service providing is occurrences of any
kind of bias (Osborne, 2015, pp.130-151). I belong from the CALD (Culturally and
Linguistically Diverse) backgrounds. Almost about 10-33% people residing in Australia belong
from different origins. All of the cultures have their own values and views and need to be
accepted by their ways they interact. The cultural differences and the barriers of languages
contribute to the distress of a person. I personally had faced certain situations where the health
service care provider were not communicating properly with the CALD people and also they
were not proficient in speaking in all the languages. My assumptions went wrong as I expected
that health service provider would go beyond the racial discrimination and provide the people