Negative Health Consequences: Gender Stereotypes & Medication

This essay delves into the pervasive issue of gender stereotyping and its detrimental effects on women's health, both historically and in contemporary society. It examines how societal biases have shaped medical practices, leading to negative health outcomes, including increased rates of depression, anxiety, osteoporosis, and complications during pregnancy. The essay explores the role of inadequate sanitation, the prevalence of eating disorders, and the vulnerability to sexually transmitted diseases stemming from gendered expectations and discriminatory practices. Furthermore, it critiques historical medical approaches and medication practices that have often been harmful to women. The essay emphasizes the need for awareness and challenges harmful stereotypes, advocating for equitable healthcare and a deeper understanding of women's health issues. The paper references various studies and reports to support its arguments, highlighting the ongoing struggle for women's health and well-being in the face of persistent gender biases. The solution is available on Desklib, a platform providing AI-powered study tools and resources for students.

GENDER STEREOTYPING AGAINST WOMEN AND
MEDICATION HAVE HISTORICALLY HAD A
NEGATIVE IMPACT ON WOMEN HEALTH.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
GENDER STEREOTYPING AGAINST WOMEN ......................................................................3
NEGATIVE IMPACT ON WOMEN HEALTH DUE TO HISTORICAL MEDICALISTION....5
Depression...................................................................................................................................5
Anxiety........................................................................................................................................5
Osteoporosis................................................................................................................................5
Disease due to inadequate sanitisation........................................................................................6
Health issues during Pregnancy .................................................................................................6
Eating Disorders-........................................................................................................................6
Sexually Transmitted Diseases...................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCE..................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The gender stereotyping is defined as a dual nature of a person which usually have their
own perception for a class, community, religion which create conflicts in gender stereotype. The
gender stereotyping is developed by social environment, the social behaviour which complies
many thoughts about the many communities. The thoughts may be positive or negative depend
on the nature of class of people. For a female the society always being stereotyped. Female can't
do whatever they want to do. Male always targeted female as week part. Then society create a
false assumption that female don't have potential as male (Riegle‐Crumb and et. al., 2017).
The medication which used previously for the women health are always in a form of
improvement. Right now there are many drugs which are probably lots of side effect. The drugs
or any medical equipment which was prepared for the women create a long term health issue.
The disease which is having the high fatality rate in history was the pregnancy issue due to
wrong medication and inadequate manner of pregnancy. This above discussion aim that to make
aware by ongoing gender stereotyping now day and their impacts are mentioned below:
A gender stereotype is, at its core, a belief may cause its holder to make assumptions
about members of a group, women and/or men. Gender stereotyping is the practice of applying
that stereotypical belief to a person. A stereotype is harmful when it limits women’s or men’s
capacity to develop their personal abilities, pursue their professional careers and make choices
about their lives and life plans (Kollmayer and et. al., 2018). Both positive and negative
stereotypes can be harmful. It is for example based on the stereotype that women are more
nurturing that child responsibilities often fall on them. Gender stereotype going wrong when it’s
come in the form of violence and which freely killed the freedom of a women. A part of racism
has also seen when it taken up to female communities. The total dominancy is always as part for
male not for female. The female has to fight for whatever they want to do. They struggled, take
fight and they loosing somewhere their own self-respect in the previous years. The modernisation
revels the truth about how a female so stronger then male. They compete male by showing their
potential, abilities, wiling and just equalise the total factor that affect the women empowerment.
Women empower herself by knowing the truth, they adopt social life as well as professional life
(Clonan-Roy and et. al., 2016).

Discrimination against women includes those differences of treatment that exist because
of stereotypical expectations, attitudes and behaviours towards women. There are some examples
which show the condition of stereotype nature.
The rights to pointed out that stereotype about women’s role within the family leads to a
division of labour within households that often result in time poverty for women and lower levels
of education. The CEDAW (Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women)
Committee has highlighted how traditional attitudes by which women are regarded as substitute
to men perpetuate widespread practice involving violence and embarrassment. Both CRC
(Convention on the Rights of the Child) and the CEDAW Committee noted that harmful
practices are multidimensional and include stereotyped sex and gender-based roles. The reports
on violence against women and the independence of judges and lawyers have stressed that the
investigation of cases of violence. the sanctioning of perpetrators is underpinned by patriarchal
notions and stereotypes that negatively affect their objectivity and impartiality A range of UN
human rights action have highlighted how stereotypes about women’s role can be incorporated in
discriminatory legislation. The law preventing women from holding ownership of land since the
“head of the household” is authorized to sign official documentation. A report on the right for
health as well be aware of how social norms and moral are often based stereotypical beliefs about
the need for control women's freedom, especially in terms of sex identity and health, leading to
sexual prohibition as well reproductive rights.There is some comment on the women about their
body, physiology and other. The stereotyped people are just making it (Brooks and et. al., 2018).
A group of people pointed that the weirdest stereotype has come across is, “people feel
that the physiological process of menstruation is because of the karma of women”. Menstruation
is a bodily process and is as natural as respiration, breathing then why do people believe that it is
something women “suffer” from because of our karma? So these are the perception which
created in the society for women.
Depression: Due to continuity sadness and worthless that they are not needed or less valuable in
this world which creates mental depression which creates low self-esteem and early-morning
waking up can also be a factor for this because it is said that women need to wake up early about
4 am in the morning for doing household works. Depression can create continuous though and
thinking over it can cause suicidal mood, means overthink can be result for thoughts of death
(Kamilia, S., 2017).

Anxiety: Anxiety can have said to a mental health disorder which is as severer as diabetes or
heart diseases. Women needed to serve men as superior and in this process they start to feel
nervous, panic, increased heart rate, sweating, weakness with trouble sleeping or not able to sleep
which may result in Anxiety problem.
Osteoporosis: Osteoporosis development is more seen in women related to men and chance of
increasing according to increasing age this is because due to deficiency of calcium in their body.
In early time there was perception that men need milk (calcium rich) more than women because
they need to be healthier for physical work due to stereotypes which resultant creates this disease.
We can say that now-a-days development can be seen in sanitization of women but not
everywhere there are many villages and outer area available where there is no sanitization
awareness and due to this woman are regularly getting sick and having different types of health
issue and which may cause effect on their body and mental health too. During mensuration cycle
they need to be sanitised but still now in present time in places women are using cloths and other
things which can may cause of infection in their body. To aware from this stereotypes there are
many advertisement and awareness programmes are being there held in the society to get rid of it.
In the pregnancy women are needed to treat well and totally sanitised but there are some
stereotypes which leaves their impact on the women and child both. There are some stereotypes
which says that what to do such things which may cause born a baby boy instead of baby girl,
which were seen in those days that how important were son for them instead of
daughter(Goodman and et. al., 2018).
Due to improper timing and lack of healthy food creates eating disorders which leads to
different disorders like Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa. Anorixia Nersova nervosa can
cause the fear of gaining weight whether they are or not.
STD are the highly concerned with the women health issues. In old time people don't like
to use the proper protection like condoms and due to this there were more chances of such
diseases due to this. And due to lack of sex-education and less care in medication such creates
the diseases because there were stereotype that protection and vaccination can effect negatively
on their health and can also affect the future generations
Previously due to stereotype people there are lots of conflict about the women social as
well as personal life. They faced a bundle of problem on regular basis which formulate various

types of health issue. Many of these has a been deducted now days, but few are constant. This is
true to say that health issue is their due to stereotype.

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