Eve Was Framed: Women and British Justice

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According to a study published in the American Family Physician, women are “50 to 75 percent more likely than men to experience an adverse drug reaction”. One would think facts like that would impact different dosages or instructions for medication. Except that, as Daniela Schardinger so eloquently described in her opinion piece in Geektime, women’s health is under-researched and underfunded. That’s a topic we’ll be going big on in future weeks. Thanks for joining us for the invite-only launch. We look forward to evolving based on what we learn and what we hear from you. Along with Baby Formula, there is another shortage impacting women - tampons! Proctor and Gamble tried to pin a tampon shortage on Amy Schumer of all people! Later, they said it was a supply and demand issue. The Great Tampon Shortage of 2022. ( from Time) We’re on a mission to help all women learn about our bodies & our health, and dedicated to putting control of our health into our own hands.

Hormone therapy is also central for trans-women and trans-men as part of their transition, and we underestimate how much risk that takes. Too much testosterone can damage the liver. Too much estrogen can lead to high blood pressure, increased blood sugar, and increase risk of blood clots. Viscount Bledisloe chose an unfortunate but telling example from which to draw the principle: 'If I am accused of stealing your property, it is a defence if I show an honest belief that I had a claim of right to that property. That is the general test of the criminal law.'" The Latest. We’ll share links to news and updates in women’s health, FemTech, and FamTech. Your time is valuable. We’re doing the reading and sharing the knowledge The twist comes when the serpent enters the picture: “the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals God had made” (3:1). The serpent tells the woman that she should eat the forbidden fruit: “ You will not die; for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (3:4-5):This book by Helena Kennedy QC is a detailed discussion of how our legal system treats women. Baroness Kennedy is a leading barrister and she gives insightful detail into her own experiences as a female lawyer and the everyday sexism she has encountered in her career. She also takes a wider look at how the way our law is written and enforced can discriminate against women. Though at times repetitive, meandering and indulgent to the general publics morbid fascination with true crime details, ‘Eve was framed’ makes good observations on the failures of our courts in establishing true equal sentencing, in particular making insightful points on the treatment of minority women and how the intersection of various circumstances join with that of existing as a woman to create large legal disadvantages in a system created by men for men. Profiles of companies doing interesting work in Women’s Health. The innovation going on right now is nothing short of inspirational and desperately needed. But I found myself reading some sentences twice due to the absurdity of some of Kennedy's allegations. It is not enough to say 'no'. Men hear a challenge to their masculinity in the sound. As a person who has read widely on the topic of feminism, I can say that there are far more complex articles or books that don't include such radical opinions and still have a point. Because, honestly, we cannot argue that all men react in the same way to the same event, especially when talking about their feelings. Kennedy seems to want to make topics like men and psychology seem easy when, in fact, they're not. One key to understanding the dynamics at play in this ancient myth is the many layers of meaning around the word knowledge. You may have heard the phrase, “he knew her in the biblical sense,” meaning “ carnal knowledge,” embodied knowledge. Notice that immediately after Adam and Eve are banished from the Garden for eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, we read in the very next verse that, “the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain.” The same Hebrew word for knowledge ( yada) is used both for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil as well as for Adam knowing his wife Eve in such a way that a baby was born nine months later.

Similarly, you may have heard of Meg Wolitzer’s 2014 novel The Interestings, which has been getting a lot of buzz. Her earlier 2005 novel The Position, which was also well-reviewed, is about the children of parents, who (before they had children) published a book together about their sex lives. Wolitzer’s novel tells the story of this couple’s four children, ages 6 to 15, stumbling upon this book in 1975 and how it differently effects each of them for the rest of their lives — given the different ages at which they are in 1975 when they encounter the “knowledge” in this age-inappropriate book, which we could think of as a contemporary version of the “forbidden fruit.” Kennedy takes no prisoners. The less progressive among the judiciary fare particularly badly: they behave, she says, like “demented lemmings”. Her colourful language does not detract from the power of this fact-based account of the position of women in the law, and hence in society. Reading Eve Was Shamed, especially so many years after Eve Was Framed, is a sobering reminder of how far we have to go. But guided through this madness by someone as consistent, persuasive and sharp as Kennedy, is also to experience a sense of relief. I don't usually read non-fiction. I find it dull and boring, and only really read it out of necessity. But in this book I found a kind of compromise. Similar questions have gotten many a precocious child into trouble over the years in Sunday School classes: I got this book from my law extra reading list but I actually really enjoyed it and it opened my eyes to new aspects to explore. It also really motivated me to keep pursuing a career in law as a woman. The one thing is that some descriptions were pretty vivid and relentless - probably because she is slightly desensitised and it took a while to get used to it.

Two women on a mission to help more women learn about themselves and the companies working to put control of women’s health into our own hands through sharing our own personal journeys. In organizing our thoughts and research into where the growing investment into women's health and FemTech is going, we found FemTech Analytic’s categorization of the 10 subsectors particularly intriguing: Menstrual Health, Reproductive Health & Contraception, Longevity, Pregnancy & Nursing, General Health Care, Mental Health, Manopause Care, Sexual Health, Pelvic and Uterine Care and Women's Wellness. We’ll explore that more too. Stay tuned. Spotlights of personal journeys in health and wellness. We have more in common than we have differences. Read the personal health and wellness journeys of women like you. If you have a story to share, please reach out to [email protected]. For now, I’ll leave you with these words from Kripal on the fruit that he hopes is being born out of his work at the intersection of academic rigor and mystical experience. He hopes that Vitamin toxicity is rare, but there are some factors that can affect how vitamins are stored in the body: