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Healthcare leaders should increase the knowledge of gender differences among healthcare providers to reduce gender inequity in healthcare. They should also address the problem of gender inequity and sexism by forming diverse healthcare teams and encouraging staff to attend training to become aware of their biases. These steps will improve the quality of care patients receive. Leadership and Sexism Health Disparities. The first step healthcare leaders can take in reducing the rates of gender inequity in healthcare is to increase the knowledge of gender differences in all healthcare providers. All of the staff that provides healthcare services must know how sex and gender affect health. Healthcare providers should never provide poor quality to someone based on gender, so they need to take the steps to address this problem. To address this problem of gender inequity and sexism, healthcare leaders should get diverse healthcare teams together to ensure patients are seen without bias. Healthcare leaders also should encourage staff to attend training to gain knowledge and bias to become aware of their own. These steps will help to better the quality of care patients receive from their healthcare providers.