Women’s health care and outcomes have long come second to those of men. But new initiatives and a wave of health tech innovators may finally rebalance this. 📷: Philippe Roy/Getty Images
This paints a long and bleak picture, but it’s one built from thousands of collective first-person accounts women have given on podcasts, in news reports, and free text entries in theWhen it comes to health care, women are second-class citizens. They have poorer access to health care, and receive incorrect or delayed diagnoses and less effective treatments than men.
, and in some of the largest specialties there are three times as many men as women. Secondly, according to Michelle Griffin, a women’s health expert and strategy adviser in women’s health tech, women’s health is not considered a “sexy” specialism among this gender-imbalanced research community.
Thirdly, money goes where the noise is. The past few years have signaled a step change in the conversation around menopause, with books like Maisie Hill’son Channel 4 in the UK. The British government has appointed its first Menopause Employment Champion and included menopause in the National Curriculum.
—for women during this fundamental physiological and psychological shift, the symptoms of which last four to five years on average but can go on for 14.
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