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Oh, HEY THERE! We had to take a little break (🧘♀️) but our newsletter is kicking back off with a doozy: women's experiences in healthcare. Quelle surprise that 4 in 5 women report not being listened to by their healthcare providers... 🙄 hexscience.substack.com/p/back-on-the-…
Hope to live to see the day that a meeting of G7 leaders is mistaken for a hen do
When you are more exercised by the words of a woman than your government's appalling record on charging rapists you cannot pretend to care. Rapists are left in every corner of our country to rape again and again. Where was the shouting for that?
Mississippi has a dual distinction of spawning the law that led to SCOTUS striking down Roe v. Wade. It is also unique among Deep South states for doing the least to provide health care coverage to low-income people who have given birth. propublica.org/article/missis…
Well, that’s depressing
Nature research paper: An analysis of US data suggests women are less likely to be credited with authorship on scientific publications than men go.nature.com/3xEf2Bq
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Women are credited less in science than men
Nature - The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women...
My cervix might not have had the training, and it didn't go to a fancy university, but it has absolutely tried its best.
This is a good report, but how can anyone have ever thought telling a woman she has an “incompetent cervix” is the right thing to do? bbc.in/3MMYBIp
Seeing red, #TurningRed, and pathologised by the #Patriarchy . If anyone needs us we're in panda mode #TurningRedMovie hexscience.substack.com/p/dude-wheres-…
Happy #InternationalWomensDay - grab the popcorn and watch @PayGapApp showcase which employers are putting their money where their mouth is 🍿 👀 #IWD2022
Covid has intensified gender inequalities, global study finds theguardian.com/world/2022/mar…
🔴 Breast cancer screenings fell by nearly 50% during the pandemic with 7,000 fewer diagnoses, official data reveal telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/2…
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‘Alarming’ slump in breast cancer screenings as thousands of diagnoses potentially missed
Nearly 9,000 women could be unaware they have the disease as screening uptake hits ‘lowest point in history’
Doctors worldwide didn't all individually decide on their own to doubt patients. They were trained to do this. Today I am remembering this Medscape practice question, since removed. What hasn't been removed is systematic mistrust of patients, and all the harm it causes.
Have you experienced #DomesticAbuse in the last 3 years? Did you get the support & help you needed? Please let me know so I can improve services for all victims. Your voice counts. The survey is for aged 16 plus in England/Wales Survey bit.ly/3dqONEG open 14.2.2022
A timely reminder that people were manhandled, arrested and fined for beaching lockdown restrictions at the vigil for Sarah Everard
How festive 🎄
#GothicAdvent In Icelandic folklore,the Yule Cat eats people who have not received any new clothes to wear before Xmas Eve.The threat of being eaten by the Cat was used by farmers as an incentive for their workers to finish processing the autumn wool before Xmas #FolkloreThursday
Ladies, another thing to feel guilty about! 💃
Glad COP26 helped us identify the true villains causing the climate crisis
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