Building awareness of the disparities black women face in pregnancy is a start—but providers also need to acknowledge our own biases.
Tag: Medical Sexism
Birth Justice: Where #MeToo and Medical Sexism Intersect
We need to start calling obstetric violence what it is.
Women Are Being Hurt the Most by the Drug Pricing Crisis
When profit-maximizing “pharma bros” hike up the price of drugs, they are disproportionately harming women.
To Menopause and Beyond
My personal journey through the transition we dare not discuss compels me to break the silence around menopause.
When the System Keeps You Sick
Is this an essay about health and feminism? Yes and no.
#SummersDeceive: Protesting the Toxic Unknown of Summer’s Eve Products
Over 15,000 women are protesting Summer’s Eve—claiming its products promote manipulative marketing, include toxic products and have poor ingredient disclosure.
The Ms. Q&A: Sateria Venable Wants to Show the World the #FaceOfFibroids
The only thing more startling about rising uterine fibroid (UF) diagnosis rates—1 in 3 women will experience UF in their lifetime—may be the global silence about this women’s health crisis. Sateria Venable founded The Fibroid Foundation to break that silence.
What Women Want in Amsterdam (and Around the World)
I interviewed hundreds of women at the 22nd Annual AIDS Conference in Amsterdam—and discovered that, no matter where they are from, women everywhere want the same, universal things.
Racism, Research and Barriers to Better Health Outcomes for Women
Despite legislation passed over 20 years ago, women, and especially women of color, are still being left out of clinical trials. The health outcomes for women, and especially women of color, reflect this disparity.
We Can All Fight #DoctorSexAbuse
The American Medical Association has never addressed the topic of sexually abusive doctors—but Dr. Meg Edison is insisting they act.