Post Tagged with: "women’s health"

Interviews

FemTech Entrepreneur Launched A Fertility Brand After Realizing Her Own Struggles Could Help Others

FemTech Entrepreneur Launched A Fertility Brand After Realizing Her Own Struggles Could Help Others

We seem to be living in a zeitgeist moment where women are becoming more open with their struggles and challenges related to pregnancy, motherhood, and reproductive health. It is about […]

Health

Maternal Mortality, Early Marriage, & Gender Violence – Tracking Women’s Health & Wellbeing On A Global Scale

Maternal Mortality, Early Marriage, & Gender Violence – Tracking Women’s Health & Wellbeing On A Global Scale

Women make up more than half of the world’s population, but improving their lives and lengthening their lifespan isn’t always the priority of governments around the world. In fact, there is […]

Health

How To Make Sure Your Doctor Takes Your Health Concerns Seriously

How To Make Sure Your Doctor Takes Your Health Concerns Seriously

From a young age, we’re taught that we can trust doctors to cure our aches and pains. And while we hope that will remain true as we get older, recent […]

Health, Working Women

7 Ways I’m Managing My Endometriosis at Work

7 Ways I’m Managing My Endometriosis at Work

By Natalie Vavricka for Fairygodboss In the fall of 2016, I was a newlywed at the peak of my career. My husband and I purchased our dream apartment, and I […]

Lifestyle

Why Every Woman Should Be Familiar With Mammography

Why Every Woman Should Be Familiar With Mammography

Breast cancer is very common among women, and in the early stages it may be difficult to detect external symptoms. However, there are a few ways in which you can […]

Entertainment

FEMINIST FRIDAY: Helpful & Hilarious Comedy Series About How To Talk To Your OBGYN

FEMINIST FRIDAY: Helpful & Hilarious Comedy Series About How To Talk To Your OBGYN

Welcome to another edition of Feminist Friday – our weekly column where we share our fave videos of the moment, expanding on our definition of intersectional, inclusive feminism. This week […]

Health

Reproductive And Sexual Health: Dissecting The Difference Between These Two Topics

Reproductive And Sexual Health: Dissecting The Difference Between These Two Topics

By Nursing@USC Staff In October 2017, the U.S. presidential administration rolled back a critical line item of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that required businesses to include birth […]

Health

Marking Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month With Vital Info To Keep You Informed & Healthy

Marking Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month With Vital Info To Keep You Informed & Healthy

September is ovarian cancer awareness month and if we’re being completely honest, there has never been a more pressing time to talk about women’s healthcare. If you live in the […]

Feminism

FEMINIST FRIDAY: Planned Parenthood Releases Timely “Stories Of Care” Web Series

FEMINIST FRIDAY: Planned Parenthood Releases Timely “Stories Of Care” Web Series

There couldn’t be a better time for a web series like this. In light of Donald Trump becoming president, the threat to women accessing the full range of healthcare allowed […]

Health, Interviews

‘The Women Of The Rose’ Author On Why Poverty Shouldn’t Prevent Breast Cancer Treatment

‘The Women Of The Rose’ Author On Why Poverty Shouldn’t Prevent Breast Cancer Treatment

Many of us know someone whose life has been affected by breast cancer. Some of us may have gone through it ourselves. Cancer is the disease that knows no religious, […]

Health

Men’s Voices Dominating Media Coverage Of Reproductive Rights Is A Huge Problem. Here’s Why…

Men’s Voices Dominating Media Coverage Of Reproductive Rights Is A Huge Problem. Here’s Why…

If there was any doubt the war on women’s reproductive rights was real and growing increasingly aggressive, all you have to do is look at the furious rate of laws […]

Body Image

Why Women’s Health Mag’s Decision To Ban ‘Bikini Body’ From Its Pages Is Good For Women

Why Women’s Health Mag’s Decision To Ban ‘Bikini Body’ From Its Pages Is Good For Women

Yep, that’s right, buh-bye one-famed Bikini Body! We won’t miss your taunting images that made every woman feel inadequate as you emblazoned yourself across some of our favorite magazines each […]

Health

Nigeria & The Gambia Banning Female Genital Mutilation Is A Major Win For Women’s Rights

Nigeria & The Gambia Banning Female Genital Mutilation Is A Major Win For Women’s Rights

Female Genital Mutilation today is considered an international violation of human rights of girls and women. According to the World Health Organization, “it reflects deep-rooted inequality between the sexes, and […]