Gender-transformative leadership: A participatory toolkit for health workers

This package seeks to strengthen existing leadership development curricula for pre- and in-service health workers and managers through a suite of gender-transformative sessions, which challenge participants to identify and respond to unique considerations for women in leadership. Rather than expecting women to “lean in” to professions and organizations that have largely excluded them from leadership and senior roles, gender-transformative leadership addresses discrimination, bias, and inequities in the system (both formal and informal) so that women are included on an equal basis to men. In this way, gender-transformative leadership can be used by and benefit decision-makers, the institutions they work in, and the health system itself. (author abstract)