This semester, in order to satisfy requirements for my Global Health major, I enrolled in

two courses surrounding gender inequities within global health situations: Reproductive and
Maternal Global Health and Gender and Global Health. Both courses approach the same
fundamental issues with different analytical lenses. The former adapts a human rights approach
on health policies of reproductive and women’s health issues, while the latter uses a gender
lens to observe social positioning and determinants that shape vulnerability to illness,
consequences of disease, and access to care. Despite this range of learning objectives, the
professors of each class constantly highlight one important factor that perpetuates slowed
improvements of