{"id":8274,"date":"2020-02-25T08:20:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T05:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8274"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:53","slug":"we-found-a-way-to-reduce-gender-bias-in-malawis-nutrition-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/25\/we-found-a-way-to-reduce-gender-bias-in-malawis-nutrition-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"We Found A Way To Reduce Gender Bias in Malawi\u2019s Nutrition Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Policymakers often struggle to disentangle themselves from their upbringing, not least when they think about gender. For example, many policies emphasise the role of women in nutrition policies \u2013 those intended to ensure peoples\u2019 good health through informed access to safe, healthy and adequate food \u2013 because in many societies cooking is considered to be a woman\u2019s responsibility. By focusing on women, these policies are thought to be\u00a0gender-responsive. But that\u2019s often not the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2016, Malawi set about renewing its nutrition policy, which had been in place since 2007. We conducted a policy dialogue to assess whether the new draft policy incorporated gender appropriately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Participants in the dialogue included officials from the departments of nutrition and gender, civil society organisations, NGOs, donors and community members. We offered them a\u00a0methodology\u00a0we\u2019d developed to reveal policymakers\u2019 gender bias. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/we-found-a-way-to-reduce-gender-bias-in-malawis-nutrition-policy-128065\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policymakers often struggle to disentangle themselves from their upbringing, not least when they think about gender. For example, many policies emphasise the role of women in nutrition policies \u2013 those&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}