Women are flocking to wellness because traditional medicine still doesn't take them seriously — Quartz. Daphna Joel was already an established neuroscientist in 2009, when she chose to launch a gender studies course at Tel Aviv University.
While preparing the class curriculum, she became deeply interested in the mechanisms through which gender is formed. Her research led her to an experiment by a professor at the University of Maryland that demonstrated how characteristics of certain neurons in animal brains could change from male to female, or vice versa, when exposed to a stressor for 15 minutes. “I realized that if certain areas of the brain could change from the typical ‘female form’ to the typical ‘male form’ under stress, there was no point in talking about the female brain and the male brain,” Joel told Haaretz (paywall). Recently, former Google engineer James Damore was fired from the company after writing a memo criticizing its diversity programs, and suggesting there may be biological reasons that women aren’t fully represented in engineering.
The gendered brain. Plan B Vending Machine at UC Davis 'Doesn't Give Judgmental Looks' Back in 2015, some University of California, Davis students were trying to buy emergency contraception on a Friday night.
The campus health center had closed for the weekend and the only 24-hour community pharmacy was all out of Plan B. The shipment would come Monday, they said. But as timing is everything — emergency contraception must be used within 72 hours for full efficacy — this was problematic. That's when their friend, then-sophomore Parteek Singh, decided to do something about it.
In March, the vending machine he worked tirelessly to provide for students was installed outside the Health and Wellness Center on campus. "Instead of calling it a Plan B vending machine we said, 'let's try calling it a Health and Wellness machine.' Singh, who served as a class senator, campaigned for two years to get the machine installed. Office hours at the student health center are from 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m., which leaves only one 24-hour pharmacy in Davis available late at night. More And More Women Are Choosing To Skip Their Periods. Six years of your life.
Or 2,190 days. That's about how long the average woman will spend having her periods. For some women, that's too many days, too many periods. More women in their 20s and 30s are choosing contraception that may suppress their menstrual cycles, says Dr. Elizabeth Micks, who runs an OB-GYN clinic at the University of Washington in Seattle. With traditional birth control, a woman takes a hormone pill for 21 days to stop her cycle. How Menstrual Cups Are Changing Lives in East Africa Women around the world consistently face unique, gender-specific barriers when it comes to staying safe and healthy.
Women are at higher risk for contracting HIV/AIDS, malaria, pneumonia, as well as sexual assault and related complications. Many of these issues are beyond our control, and linked to deep-rooted cultural practices that would take decades to alter. How Long Can You Wait to Have a Baby? - Jean Twenge. In the tentative, post-9/11 spring of 2002, I was, at 30, in the midst of extricating myself from my first marriage.
My husband and I had met in graduate school but couldn’t find two academic jobs in the same place, so we spent the three years of our marriage living in different states. After I accepted a tenure-track position in California and he turned down a postdoctoral research position nearby—the job wasn’t good enough, he said—it seemed clear that our living situation was not going to change. I put off telling my parents about the split for weeks, hesitant to disappoint them. When I finally broke the news, they were, to my relief, supportive and understanding. Then my mother said, “Have you read Time magazine this week? Time’s cover that week had a baby on it. The panic stemmed from the April 2002 publication of Sylvia Ann Hewlett’s headline-grabbing book, Creating a Life, which counseled that women should have their children while they’re young or risk having none at all.
The First 12 Seconds Of This Video Should END The Anti-Birth-Control Argument. Fucking Yiiikes, More Men Are Sabotaging Their Partners' Birth Control. Gonna over share here a bit but this totally happened to me. I don't have any proof, mind you, but I was dating a borderline abusive partner who consistently expressed interest in my having his child until magically, despite using condoms, one day I was pregnant. This motherfucker wanted me to keep this child despite proving in innumerable instances how incapable of fatherhood he was. I kept having foreshadows of me being stuck at dead end jobs to care for a son that looks remarkably like the asshole that disappeared from our life, or worse: actually having to deal with him for the rest of ever.
Having an Abortion When No One Called Me a Slut. No Controversy - How Have Contraceptives Changed Your Life. Giving women in developing countries access to family planning information and contraceptives is transformative.
It not only allows women and girls the opportunity to lead healthier, more productive lives but it’s one of the best investments a country can make in its future. Access to family planning information and contraceptives can change lives. Every woman and girl deserves the chance to determine her own future. Melinda Gates.