“…Declaration on Social Determinants of Health reports that health inequities are worsening as global wealth increases, confirming that these inequities are a direct result of inadequate social and economic policies as well as exclusionary politics (Kokkinen, Shankardass, O'Campo, & Muntaner, 2017). Women are often vulnerable to health inequities for a variety of reasons including discrimination and unjust structural policies (Alyaemni, Theobald, Faragher, Jehan, & Tolhurst, 2013;Bungay, 2013;Raphael, 2016;Raphael, Curry-Stevens, & Bryant, 2008;Short, Yang, & Jenkins, 2013). Such structural inequities include policies that negatively influence access to childcare, eldercare, maternity leave, legal aid and child support agreements, which result in women earning lower incomes, experiencing higher unemployment rates, lagging behind in education, finding less employment opportunity, and lone parenting more often than men (Hankivsky, Varcoe, & Morrow, 2007;Pederson, Greaves, & Poole, 2015).…”