Only 5% of guidelines define the terms ‘sex’ and ‘gender’.
- Senior Research Fellow, Global and Women's Health, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
The stereotype of the old woman is anxious, dependent, useless, and a burden. But my interviews with older women found them contributing to society in myriad ways.
Australians’ mental health has suffered terribly during COVID. They need to know what the plan is for a future pandemic.
Most young women we interviewed said they gained pleasure watching sexually explicit material, but their focus was often on their male partner’s needs, desires and expectations, rather than their own.
Describing non-consensual acts as pornography minimises the importance of consent.
Some doctors’ websites give the impression that women’s genitals that diverge from the “ideal” need surgery. This is nonsense – genitals are as diverse as our faces.
After Fifty Shades of Grey there was debate about its romanticisation of an abusive relationship. The sequel confirms that this wasn’t a misconception.
There are endless euphemisms for women’s conditions and body parts. If you can’t name a body part, how can you seek medical help if something appears to be wrong with it?
Women should not be blamed for getting pregnant accidentally, because factors outside their control are frequently at play.
Few Australian women use long-acting reversible contraception, despite its advantages over other methods. These contraceptives offer women long-term, cost-effective, “fit-and-forget” contraception.
Women with endometriosis say it affects their whole life, but they receive little support for managing this condition, which doesn’t have a cure or a treatment regime without nasty side effects.
In future, women could remain fertile for longer by undergoing an ovarian tissue transplant, according to paper published this week by American and Danish researchers. The Reproductive Biomedicine paper…
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