Women's Health Project
by Agenda Media
Join 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 th
Episodes
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The contraception chat
Six 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...
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Leave no woman behind
How 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…
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The female entrepreneurs transforming women's health
As 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...
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The evolving expectations of fitness and exercise
How 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…
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Just squeeze? The pelvic floor mystery
Pelvic 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...
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Endometriosis sufferers got an apology. What next?
Back 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…
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Eliminate Cervical Cancer? How this target became reality
There 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…
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The hushed but not-so secret world of menopause
How 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…
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The 'Norm Load' on women's health
Major 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....
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Misogyny in women's health has a very long history
How 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...
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Why Project Women's Health?
Let'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…
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About this show
Join 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 th
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