Women Mental Health in Context to the Social and Geopolitical Perspective

Women mental health

Abstract

Since time, immemorial women have been nurturing children, taking care of the families, and paving the way for men, shaping a better future without proper accreditation. Women’s contributions, social status, and mental health have been neglected. Theorists have often stressed upon women’s health which is not merely related to biology and child bearing, but also due to the effects of overwork, food, stress and strain, strife and displacements. Comparative analysis of such experimental research of psychiatric ailments revealed a uniformity across varied social classes and social contexts: presentations of anxiety and depression, unspecified mental disorder and psychological distress are among the most prevalent of mental ailments among women, whereas among men substance abuse is more prevalent. Correlations between financial constraints, infant mortality, relationship loss, and psychiatric illnesses in women have also been shown in multiple anthropological studies as the social origin of distress. Mainstreaming gender perspective in mental health policies and formulating “healthy” policies, by upliftment of the status of women and their health, is to build on local movements and improve grass-root strengths. National gender policies, that increase political, legal and cultural status of women by legalizing good public investment and by offering protection to women and men alike will be helpful. To further the mainstreaming of gender perspectives, programs and policies related to health which incorporate mental wellbeing into general well being while addressing a females physical, economical, socio psychological needs from pediatric to geriatric age groups needs to be developed.