Maria Lugones takes Frye's proposal a step further, introducing the notion of "world-traveling," defined as "traveling" to the world of others who occupy a different position in the social hierarchy (1995).
In Fig. 6B this is illustrated for pairs of IRG proteins at different positions in the loading hierarchy.
It was expected that within this system, pediatricians and health visitors would have different opinions and beliefs, due their different positions in the system's hierarchy.
Health equity, an expression increasingly embraced in the Global North, has been defined as "the absence of systematic disparities in health or in the major social determinants of health, between social groups who have different levels of underlying social advantage/disadvantage that is, different positions in a social hierarchy" [ 14].
Or would such differences owe instead to women's and men's different positions in work structures and hierarchies?
Finally, socioeconomic variables play an important role in musculoskeletal morbidity [ 17, 18, 23, 45, 46] and different positions in society and workplace hierarchies might therefore also contribute to gender differences.
Certain robes indicate a position in the hierarchy; others correspond to function and may be worn by the same individual at different times.
