First, there exists a significant correlation between gender inequality and gender disparities in mental health. Second, the GINI index is significantly associated with male—but not female—depressive disorder rates. Third, gender disparities in depressive disorders are associated with a country’s wealth.

2023年10月6日 · There’s a global mental health crisis crying out for action, and it’s taking the biggest toll on girls and women, whose rights are rolling back around the world. Three gender equality experts discuss girls’ and women’s mental and emotional well-being.

2018年5月18日 · First, there exists a significant correlation between gender inequality and gender disparities in mental health. Second, the GINI index is significantly associated with male—but not...

2020年2月25日 · The study by Stepanikova et al. published in this issue of EClinicalMedicine expands on previous research around gender inequality and health to investigate the impact of the broad construct of “perceived gender discrimination” in relation to a woman's mental health. Specifically, the authors sought to increase understanding of how this ...

2018年11月26日 · Gender inequality and discrimination, as well as violence and victimisation towards women, have recently hit the headlines creating a media furore. We provide a timely discussion surrounding the impact of these issues on women's mental health and a discussion of the role of psychiatry in this context.

2021年7月1日 · Gender inequality has a profound effect on mental health worldwide. Some of the psychological effects of gender inequality include higher levels of stress, anxiety, depression, and...

2024年12月1日 · There is an urgent need of understanding gender disparities in mental health, as gender equality is critical in science, medicine, and global health. Decades of research have shown that mental disorders resulted from a combination of stress, environmental, neurobiological, and genetic factors.

2021年5月24日 · Sex and gender interact in complex ways to affect health outcomes. Sex can affect disease risk, progression and outcomes through genetic (e.g. function of X and Y chromosomes), cellular and physiological, including hormonal, pathways.

Women are nearly twice as likely as men to suffer from mental illness. This gender disparity in depressive disorders may relate to social inequalities and living standards across nations....

We report four main results: 1) The gender gap in mental health in adolescence is largely ubiquitous cross-culturally, with girls having worse average mental health; 2) There is considerable cross-national heterogeneity in the size of the gender gap, with the direction reversed in a minority of countries; 3) Higher GDP per capita is associated w...