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16 Wash. & Lee J. Civil Rts. & Soc. Just. 47 (2009-2010)
Stereotyping Women in the Health Sector: Lessons from CEDAW

handle is hein.journals/walee16 and id is 53 raw text is: Stereotyping Women in the Health Sector: Lessons from CEDAW Simone Cusack* and Rebecca J. Cook Table of Contents I. Introduction ................................................................................ 48 II. Understanding Gender Stereotyping in the Health Sector .................................................................. 49 A. Wrongful Gender Stereotyping: An Obstacle to Women's Reproductive Health ......................................... 49 B. Exposing Wrongful Gender Stereotyping in the Health Sector and Understanding How it Impedes Women's Access to Health Care ....................................................... 55 1. Impeding Women's Access to Contraceptives by Stereotyping Women as Primarily Mothers ............ 56 2. Impeding Access to Abortion by Stereotyping Women as Weak, Vulnerable and Incompetent D ecision-m akers ......................................................... 65 III. State Obligations to Eliminate Gender Stereotyping in the Health Sector .............................................. 70 IV . C onclusion ................................................................................ 77 * Public Interest Lawyer at the Public Interest Law Clearing House (Vic.) Inc., (Australia) and Fellow in the International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Programme, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Canada. ** Professor of Law, Chair in International Human Rights Law, and Co-Director of the International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Programme, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. The arguments presented in this Article build on those developed in: REBECCA J. COOK & SIMONE CUSACK, GENDER STEREOTYPING: TRANSNATIONAL LEGAL PERSPECTIVES (2010). The authors are grateful to Bernard Dickens and Linda Hutjens for their insightful comments and help, and the anonymous reviewers for their useful comments.

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