Table 2 Gender analysis framework: understanding gender as a power relation and driver of inequality [27]
From: A qualitative study on acceptability of the mistreatment of women during childbirth in Myanmar
What constitutes gendered power relations? | Who has what? | Access to resources (education, information, skills, income, employment, services, benefits, time, space, social capital) |
Who does what? | Division of labor within and beyond the household and every day practices | |
How are values defined? | Social norms, ideologies, beliefs and perceptions | |
Who decides? | Rules and decision-making (formal and informal) | |
How is power negotiated and changed? | Individuals/people | Critical consciousness, acknowledgement (or lack of), agency/apathy, interests, historical and lived experiences, resistance, violence |
Structural/environmental | Legal and policy status, institutionalism within planning and programs, funding, accountability mechanisms |