Summary
Nursing is a predominantly female profession, yet sex and gender bias is rife. In a remarkably candid conversation, feminist writer Caroline Criado Perez, author of ‘Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men’, talks about how health care and health care research fails women, how changes are needed for women experiencing miscarriage – and what it means when medicine treats the female body as atypical and niche.
Nursing Matters is presented by PNC Chair Rachel Hollis and PNC member Alison Leary. For this episode they are also joined by RCN member Leanne Patrick, who works in services for women experiencing gender-based violence and tweets on behalf of the RCN Feminist Network.
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