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In this episode, Raquel Rosario Sánchez talks to Dr Alyson McGregor, a women’s health pioneer and author who has brought the concept of sex differences in the delivery of acute medical care to the national and international stage. Dr McGregor’s book, Sex Matters represents a landmark moment in acknowledging the importance of understanding female bodies in all aspects of health research, treatment, and medicine development.
Dr Emma Craddock, from Birmingham City University, shares her recent research project evaluating the Women's Health Network in Bradford. Outlining the importance of engaging women and especially marginalised women in their healthcare, Dr Craddock provides a model of how this can effectively be done.
Kenwood Ladies’ Pond has now introduced mandatory charges to use the pool. Read this post to learn why allowing women and girls to swim when & how they wish to, in a space meant only for them, without being forced to pay or plan well in advance (or jump through hoops to prove a “hardship status,”) is a feminist issue.
In the UK, as the coronavirus pandemic rages, we are seeing the effects of years of over-medicalisation of birth. The NHS has decided that the best use of its midwives would be to close all midwifery-led units, strip back their home birth services and redeploy all midwives to the obstetric units. This is a huge blow, but it is just the start. This move made it so that healthy women had to scrap their plans for a low/no-intervention natural birth and head to an obstetric unit, where the rates of intervention and caesarean are so much higher. Imagine the anxiety of that woman, being told to go to the hospital that everyone else in the country is being told to stay away from if they are not sick. Pregnancy is not a sickness and more often than not, doesn't need to be a medical event.
Elle, Lori and Amy at Greater Manchester Doulas CIC are trying to find ways to support women in these unsettling times, to help them to remain in power in the birth room and to be aware of the human rights that they have.
How One Woman Became a Fan of Women’s Football
By Karen Dobres, Volunteer Equality FC Campaign Manager, Lewes FC Women
My Dad never liked it, and my Mum, sister and girlfriends weren’t fans.
In the ‘70s at primary school the boys had kickabouts on the field, but us girls challenged each other on hopscotches chalked on playground concrete. Football just passed me by.
