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Women's health is better when women have more control in their society

  • Written by Siobhán Mattison, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of New Mexico
imageA woman from one of the Mosuo farming communities in southwest China. The Mosuo were participants in a groundbreaking study examining gender-based health disparities. Siobhan Mattison, CC BY-SA

Gender disparities in health are not a phenomenon unique to the pandemic. Long before COVID-19, women made less money than men, had more child care...

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