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    The Trillion Dollar Women's Health Research Gap

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    Exploring how systematic exclusion of women from medical research has created a healthcare crisis affecting half the world's population, and the concrete steps needed to close this gap.

    The Trillion Dollar Women's Health Research Gap

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    The female body is not the problem. The problem is the social meaning we ascribe to that body, and a socially determined failure to account for it.

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