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Gender Equality Resources

Human Rights, gender equality, justice, equity, diversity and inclusion are core to ICM’s work. Read ICM’s documents for midwives and midwives’ associations on G-JEDI.

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Position Statement

Gender equality and pay equity for midwifery

ICM advocates the reduction of gender inequalities and pay equity. Member associations should strive to implement funding models that recognise parity and promote equal pay for equal work.
Statements

The Health-Care Professional Associations’ response to the Honoring Women’s Demands paper

In 2022, women's voices united through the What Women Want campaign, demanding respect and dignity in healthcare, prompting Honoring Women's Demands.
Midwife Talita Oseguera performs a general check up with Lacee Rodgers who is 32 weeks pregnant at Choices clinic. Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Core Document

Professional Framework for Midwifery (2021)

Every profession needs a structure to support it, strengthen it and guide its development, that includes all the elements required before an occupation can be considered a profession.
Statements

Statement on the Provision of Personal Protective Equipment for Midwives  

Urgent Call for Governments to Provide Personal Protective Equipment to Midwives
A midwife Hotaru Tsuchida with her pregnant patient just before birth at Aiiku Hospital in Tokyo, Japan.
Statements

Statement on Respectful Maternity Care During COVID-19

ICM is concerned that the human rights of women, babies and midwives are being violated by inappropriate protocols for the management of pregnancy, birth and postnatal care.
Statements

Statement on COVID-19 Vaccination for Midwives

ICM calls on all midwives to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect themselves and safely continue to provide care for mothers and newborns.
A midwife Hotaru Tsuchida prepares to help with delivery at Aiiku Hospital in Tokyo, Japan.
Statements

Statement in Support of the WHO

The World Health Organization needs to be funded to maintain its position as a global institution that provides trustworthy information during health emergencies.
Statements

Anti-Racism Statement

At ICM we passionately embrace the diversity of the midwifery community, including racial diversity, but also see that the lived experiences of Black, Asian and other racialised midwives and those they care for differs significantly from that of white counterparts.
Statements

Statement on Stopping the Criminalisation of Midwifery

Women’s right to choose home birth must be upheld. This choice should not be denied because there is not an adequate and enabling regulatory framework that would make it possible for midwives to practice their profession in any place that women choose to give birth.
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