Females have outnumbered males in the U.S. since 1946, according to the United States Census Bureau Despite this, there are continuous and disturbing gender inequities in medical research, leading to underrepresentation of women in clinical trials and bias in understanding women’s health needs. The main issue is that there’s no plan to improve this bias. Less than 8% of the National Institute of Health grant budget for fiscal year 2023 was allocated to women’s health research. NIH doesn’t separately calculate or publish a category for men’s health research, this is because most other research is men’s health. Conditions that uniquely affect women remain “critically understudied.” according to the National Library of Medicine.  To read more, click the link in bio. #pagedesignbyeisleyfoster #socialmediabyeisleyfoster #artbyjuliacampbell