If you’ve been on social media recently, you might have come across a viral lyric that’s resonating with millions: “We’ve never really studied the female body.” People are using this audio to call out long-standing gaps in medical research due to the historical exclusion of women in studies.
This article is part of our WinSPIRE Science in the News series. Authors: Chandana Herlekar and Kelsey Zuniga Diaz
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Continue ReadingTo give the female body a place at the table, under the microscope, at the bench, and in a white coat at the bedside is to restore, in some part, her bodily autonomy and assert that she is equally deserving of her universal, indivisible, and interdependent human right to health.
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