According to The World Health Organisation, the UK has the largest female health gap in the G20 and the 12th largest globally. Female founders are stepping up to bridge the gender health gap.
Women are being misdiagnosed, overmedicated and at times dismissed by healthcare professionals. This largely stems from laws banning women from clinical trials and more recently the belief that women’s bodies are too complicated for clinical trials due to the complexities of their hormone network. It is shocking that only 12% of Alzheimer’s research is focused on women, yet women are twice as likely as men to suffer from this disease.
In this FemTech World article, Nicola Finn highlights just some of the female founders who have battled on to gain funding for their groundbreaking propositions and have succeeded despite the obstacles, due to the baked-in bias and lack of diversity across the VC funding arena.
More female investors need to be appointed as they can personally understand the impact of female health tech innovations. Let the activists keep beating the drum around female health inequalities.
Read the full story in FemTechWorld.
