04/27/2025
The Women’s Wellness Gap
Today is World Women’s Wellness day. Half of the world’s population is female and we disproportionately face health disparities, high maternal mortality and difficulty accessing healthcare. It’s indisputable that female biology is essential to the survival of the species and that our contributions to science, history, art, politics and literature, as well as in bearing and rearing future generations are immeasurable. We are your mothers, sisters, wives, aunts, cousins and friends. We are your teachers, doctors, nurses, business owners and congress women. We are part of our communities, families and countries. We are loved and respected and counted on.
And yet our unique physiology and health vulnerabilities have been historically understudied, underrepresented and underfunded. This has resulted in a gap in our understanding of conditions that affect women exclusively and in how diseases affect women differently in general. Our lack of understanding of the particular ways disease manifests in women has created misdiagnosis, under diagnosis and lack of effective interventions and treatment for women. This has undermined the over all efficacy of women’s healthcare. Equitable care is not something we should have to argue for, the wellness of the world’s women is crucial to the wellness of the world.
As a women’s health and wellness professional and a woman, I will continue to work to help close the wellness gap and support women’s wellness today and every day.
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