Gil-Romo Sara Elena Pérez, Coria Silvia Díez-Urdanivia
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico.
Salud Publica Mex. 2007 Nov-Dec;49(6):445-53. doi: 10.1590/s0036-36342007000600012.
The present paper reflects on utilization of the gender category in food and nutrition studies in Mexico. It highlights women's important role as caretakers of family health and nutrition. Briefly the authors review how women have been analysed in the different food an nutrition surveys; how gender has been effaced in the "mean per capita", and how women have been taken into account only as far as their reproductive role. This paper also outlines the importance of including the gender category and gender approach in food and nutrition studies; in order to clearly visualize the feeding inequities among men and women throughout the stages of the feeding process, i.e. decision, provision, preparation, distribution and intake. Moreover, improved understanding of women's nutrition practices and meanings that foods convey to women is advocated. In the conclusion the absolute need to articulate the gender issue in nutrition, nursing and medical academic curricula is stated.
本文反思了墨西哥食品与营养研究中性别范畴的运用。它强调了女性作为家庭健康与营养照料者的重要作用。作者简要回顾了在不同的食品与营养调查中女性是如何被分析的；性别在“人均”数据中是如何被忽略的，以及女性如何仅在其生育角色方面被考虑到。本文还概述了在食品与营养研究中纳入性别范畴和性别视角的重要性；以便清晰地呈现出在喂养过程的各个阶段，即决策、供应、准备、分配和摄入阶段，男女之间的喂养不平等现象。此外，提倡更好地理解女性的营养实践以及食物对女性所传达的意义。结论部分指出，绝对有必要在营养、护理和医学学术课程中阐明性别问题。
