Women's Health Project
11 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJoin Women’s Agenda and a huge number of expert guests for The Women’s Health Project.
This is a special podcast series examining how and where women’s health has been sidelined and overlooked, while also exploring the innovation, advocacy and research that’s being done to significantly change the story.
It’s a massive project. But it’s one we hope to make a solid start on during this series, to understand where and how women’s health has been dismissed, and ensure different areas like -- heart disease, mental health, reproductive health, physical health -- get a gendered spotlight to help improve outcomes for all of us. And to position women’s health as pivotal to the pandemic recovery.
This series is independently created by Women’s Agenda and Agenda Media, and made possible thanks to the support of Organon, the recently launched pharmaceutical company dedicated to a better and healthier every day for every woman.
Let’s change the story. Join us on the Women’s Health Project.
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Episodes
The contraception chat
February 11, 2022 01:22 - 21 minutes - 29.3 MBSix decades since the pill changed everything, there's still work to do on making contraception accessible and affordable. How far have we come in terms of innovation, affordability, and ensuring we can access the best methods possible? We explore all this and more, on the latest episode of the Women's Health Project, our special podcast series examining where women's health has been sidelined, and what's being done -- or could be done -- to fill the gaps. The Women's Health Project is...
Leave no woman behind
February 04, 2022 00:45 - 24 minutes - 33.7 MBHow do we ensure quality healthcare is delivered for all women in Australia, across all backgrounds, regions and contexts? An intersectional approach, rather than one that benefits only certain groups? We've seen and heard about some of the gender gaps in healthcare, but the gaps between different communities and groups of women can be far wider. In this episode, we touch on some of these gaps: including the gaps in between Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in Australia, as well as the ...
The female entrepreneurs transforming women's health
January 28, 2022 00:33 - 17 minutes - 24.3 MBAs the Women's Health Project returns this week, we look at the massive push by women to change the business of women's health, including how care is delivered. We look at how investors, inventors and others have failed to consider women's health for so long, and why the past few years especially have been seing the numbers shifting, the business community racing to catch up. With women contributing to discuss raising capital, inventing, digital health, FemTech, new models of care deli...
The evolving expectations of fitness and exercise
December 10, 2021 01:14 - 24 minutes - 33.1 MBHow much exercise should you do? How fit should you be? What type of movements should you be focusing on? That will depend on who you talk to. Or rather who is talking to you, at any point of the day. On TV, in the media, and 24/7 on social media, via the influencers and fitfluencers sharing what’s become an ideal version of arms, legs, abs and buts. Every day, we’re exposed to a version of what it means to be fit as a woman. To some extent, it can be inspiring and motivating. But to ...
Just squeeze? The pelvic floor mystery
December 01, 2021 05:28 - 23 minutes - 32.8 MBPelvic floor! How does this all-important group of muscles remain such a mystery to women and girls, despite the role it serves in supporting everything from exercising to enjoying pleasurable sex, preventing bladder leaks and prolapse? Today, we're talking about it. With the help of some pelvic physios, women who've dedicated their lives and careers to learning everything possible about this aspect of our anatomy and supporting women and girls and anyone experiencing pelvic dysfunction or...
Endometriosis sufferers got an apology. What next?
November 24, 2021 23:40 - 19 minutes - 26.9 MBBack in 2017, Health Minister Greg Hunt issued a rare apology to Australian women. He directed it towards the one in ten who suffer from endometriosis, noting that the condition should have been acknowledged at an earlier time. In a much more powerful way. His apology came on behalf of all those in parliament and from the medical system. The apology, during an Endo Active event in Canberra, featuring a number of different advocacy groups and “Endo Warriors" in the room, marked a major tur...
Eliminate Cervical Cancer? How this target became reality
November 16, 2021 18:57 - 17 minutes - 24.2 MBThere is one area of women's health that's shaped a little different to others. Where significant progress has been made in recent history. That area is cervical cancer. It's the first and only cancer the World Health Organisation has set targets on eliminating, and one where recent developments in the days leading up to recording this podcast could put us on track to make it happen. So why has there been so much success in targeting this area? But then why have some groups of women been...
The hushed but not-so secret world of menopause
November 09, 2021 12:56 - 18 minutes - 25.8 MBHow did something that 51% of the population have or will experience become a “secret world”? On this episode, we’re talking about Menopause. And of course, it’s not a secret world. It’s actually THE world. But for some reason, it’s not so frequently discussed. Our goal is to ask why, and to play a part in changing all of that: so that those experiencing menopause can get the support they need from their families, their employers and the wider community. Because while this is an are...
The 'Norm Load' on women's health
November 02, 2021 00:12 - 22 minutes - 30.8 MBMajor health campaigns all over the world have urged women to take responsibility for getting men off the couch, but then failed to address the health needs of women. We're calling this the "Norm Load" and it may have just shaped more about our understanding of women's health than we realise. Indeed, while heart disease and dementia are the two leading causes of death in Australia -- we often think of other things when thinking of "women's health". And we may often think "men" when even t...
Misogyny in women's health has a very long history
October 26, 2021 00:12 - 20 minutes - 28.8 MBHow did it get to this? So much pain and illness in women ignored for so long? It starts with a history of misogyny in healthcare and continues with the fact the "default human" in so much health research is a 70-kilogram white male. In this first ep of The Women's Health Project, we hear some personal experiences from Shivani Gopal on how her pain was "normalised". We get some history from Elinor Cleghorn, the historian and author of the definitive guide to women's health through the ages...
Why Project Women's Health?
October 24, 2021 08:41 - 2 minutes - 3.86 MBLet's do this! We're investigating women's health on this podcast, including how it's been sidelined, overlooked and seen women's pain and health risks ignored for so long. It's a big project with a lot to cover. But we're determined to make a start. To get women's health on the agenda, and to look at some promising areas where improvements and investments are being made. We'll be speaking to a wide range of medical experts for this series, and building on our ten years of research, intervie...