3777NRS: Cultural Safety and Women's Health - Critical Reflection

This report provides a critical reflection on the impact of cultural values, attitudes, and systems on women's health, particularly within the context of Indian culture. The author, drawing on personal experiences and observations, analyzes how societal norms, gender inequality, and traditional practices influence women's well-being. The report explores the questioning of assumptions, reflection on social and individual perspectives, and the pursuit of emancipation from restrictive cultural practices. It highlights the negative impacts of cultural factors on women's health, including sexual commitment, dietary habits, and gender discrimination, while also acknowledging the protective aspects of cultural identity. The author reflects on the effects of social disruption and stresses the importance of women's empowerment, equal rights, and education to overcome these challenges and achieve sustainable socio-economic development. The report concludes by emphasizing the need to address gender discrimination and promote women's fundamental human rights to improve their health outcomes. References include a range of academic sources supporting the arguments.

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Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................3
Questioning of assumptions...................................................................................................................3
Reflection on social and individual perspectives...................................................................................4
Pursuit of emancipation.........................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................6
References.............................................................................................................................................7

Introduction
The report brings out a critical discussion on how values, attitudes and cultural systems affect
the women`s health. Although beliefs and assumptions is good and desirable for people.
Moreover, each worker has an unique perspective and own set of values in the world. India
has culturally diverse population with people who resides near seas. Culture has a diverse and
wide concept and it includes things such as sexual relationship, dressing sense, clothing,
social behaviour, tradition, customs, norms, shelter, and education in India. The analysis is
based on reflection where I as an Indian girl has to follow the rigid Indian culture that is
composed of restrictions and it creates lack of opportunities for me. Composition of Indian
cultural system affects and influences women`s health negatively that is implemented to
protect people from wrong deeds and sins. Therefore, but by the time they were
misinterpreted and women were bond to follow these cultural norms as compulsion (Ariza,
2017).
Questioning of assumptions
India is well known for its culture and believe system that cannot be questioned so easily.
However, in order to execute a question and implement a question. Firstly, I should identify
what problems I am facing when following the Indian culture. Implemented cultural system
have many relevance things that benefit people. Actually, an Indian girl even do not know
whether is she facing barriers or not because the conditioning during the bringing up process
is done in such a way that difficulties with health becomes natural. On the other side, it
hampers the women health. Sexual commitment through having it in such an immature age
can lead to poor health of women. Aboriginals who have very high intake of drugs in their
daily diet suffer from lack of nutritional values of food. Apart from this, there is a huge

discrimination occurring in every part of the world based on gender inequality. Culture is
looked as an fundamental of an indigenous outlook for life and therefore, it has influenced the
health of Indian women. It is believed that behaviour is affected by different factors that have
immediate control on attitudes and further on health. There are many factors that influence
indigenous health of Indians’, which are poorly misunderstood. It is believed that behaviour
is driven by certain factors that have immediate control such as behavioural control. In some
cases, the social disruption and certain historical events look to promote the health
behaviours.
Reflection on social and individual perspectives
I perceive that social and individual factors have a greater impact on personality traits.
Personality differentiation is based on several habits such as social disruption. Alcohol abuses
and smoking practises, social disruption, and tobacco can associate with health risk behaviour
in a negative way. I associate that stress has emerged with daily practises that exacerbate the
general practises of health risk behaviours. Day by day when I lost myself in culture and
started observing fast that have negatively affected my health. I kept observing fast and ate
less but after some time, it become tough for me to sustain as I usually suffer from headache
and health weaknesses. After the age of 35, pedisure and other nutritional food had not much
positive impact on my knee pain. On the other side, everyone including me has cultural
identity and distinctiveness that can sometimes psychologically be protective and promote the
health behaviour. I can feel that even if women in indigenous society has freedom and is not
bind in the typical culture. They suffer from language issues. Sometimes, they are forced and
to live in restrictions such as where they are allowed to hunt, socialise relatives, and practise
traditional ceremonies. Living a life of a women in India needs courage and intelligence
otherwise I can feel a sense of insecurity every time I go out to office especially when I had
night shift in my office. Apart from this, even when I suffer my menstrual cycle, I stay away

from my own people even when I need them due to severe pain in my stomach. Even I
observed fast (ritual) in this condition because it is often said by our elder people that if I
leave them for a while it can lead to blunder. To release women from all geographic and
institutional restrictions, it was important to assimilation and segregate policies. People in
aboriginals and indigenous communities were not allowed of speaking language other than
traditional language. The restriction, conflicts, and problems associated with colonisation
cam lead to loss of liberty, life, irrevocable.
Analysis of power relations
Productive labour is defined as activity, which is performed outside the house, and the work
is household in income generation process. Whereas, the reproductive labour performs the
activities within the house and includes food preparation, housework, kitchen garden, and
childcare. In most developing countries, women spend most of their time in reproductive
labour activities and are unpaid for the same. On the other hand, men spend more time in
remunerated work and earn household money. Family and sexual violence is a main factor
that affects health and welfare issues. It occur in all age groups especially demographic and
socioeconomic groups that affect women and children.
After applying the holistic approach, It is seen that the gender roles is influenced by British
practices including colonisation. It becomes easier for I figure out each and every step that
flooded with rituals and backed mew out from my personality growth. Its first step is
awareness of what actually prevented me to execute the things or my goals. Further, I
undertook the description of what external and internal factors. I reflected my feelings which
is internal but the problem occurred in the society affected my internal state and it limited and
restricted me to execute particular things. Ultimately, evaluation is a state where the problems
are analysed and finally I decided to overcome one by one with the help of approach. The
model and approach helped me too culturally; it is observed that women tend to associate

with unpaid work and home whereas, men associate with public sphere, large society, and
paid work. Women is seen as homemaker who brought civility to the men population. The
women is valued for their ability to create family who have settled and entered the country as
dependents. Occupation is based on sex-aggregation where women dominate the domestic
and caring professions such as teaching and nursing. Women`s are presented in managerial
positions, scientific occupation, and are overrepresented in clerical and administrative
positions. Many heterosexual couples marry for love and conform long-term emotional,
sexual commitment, and finance. Moreover, arrange marriages in many ethnic groups but it
may not be considerably desirable by many people. Marriage is not necessary to combat child
rearing through relationship but in total population of community, almost above fifteen years
of age is married. The grant members of legal factors and responsibility is to equivalent to
those who are formally married. Homosexual couple is not recognises by the law for the very
long time that is used equal to formally of married couples. According to Hindu
methodology, Women observe fast on different days believes that this would help their
husbands to live long life. Therefore, on the other side they affect their health. Due to lack of
nutrition, women generally experiences bone weaknesses after the age of 40 because they do
not focus on their nutritional value of food and suffer from lack of calcium (Stockman,
Hayashi, & Campbell, 2015).
Pursuit of emancipation
To overcome the problem of emancipation against culture and tradition, it is important
empower women through their equal rights. Most importantly, women should be well
informed of her rights. The effort from social and legal groups is to secure rights of women
and remove the gender discrimination. Culture and tradition discriminate people on the basis
of gender and racism. States should promote women rights that can be change for sustainable
socio-economic development in the world (Stockman, Hayashi,& Campbell, 2015).

Intimate partner violence and its health impact. Without women empowerment and equality,
a community cannot achieve millennium goals (Sobel, 2016). Women has greater peace
building processes that need to overlook the peace agreements. A number of delegates agree
to end discrimination which is against women that focused in fulfilling women`s human
rights. Educating women in rural area is extremely important to break the global cycle of
poverty. Poverty reduction, environment sustainability, and food security is the major
concern to empower rural women. A more coordinated and systematic efforts can empower
women and contribute to develop the role of women. Apart from these actions, previously it
was believed in rural areas that giving birth a girl child is not an appropriate. Female foeticide
had become a common ritual in India. By the time, the government has imposed strict
penalties and jail abuses if the parents try to determine the sex of the foetus (Ballaro, J. M., &
Washington, 2016).
Conclusion
From the discussion, it can be perceived that there are several traditions, believe system,
social behaviour, and culture that has integrated people into several people which forms a
society. Therefore, these cultural dimensions were severely imposed on women, which has
affected their health. Social disruption, gender inequality, sexual violence, poverty
occurrence, domestic work is considered unproductive has affected the women`s health. The
culture of consuming the products and eating habits hampered the women`s health.
Therefore, to resolve the problems, there are some social and legal actions conducted to
ensure that women get their fundamental human right and reduce the gender discrimination.

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