An excellent previous blog post from Sarah [1] describes the gender data gap and touches on the fact that women experience poorer healthcare outcomes. This arises from, amongst other things, the historical exclusion of women from clinical trials and this idea of the ‘male default’, where, for example, drug dosages and diagnostic thresholds are benchmarked against men, or even surgical instruments are designed to fit male hands [2]. I thought I would follow up on Sarah’s blog post and discuss how FemTech can help to close this gender health gap.
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