Initial Resources

 11/10/25

Initial Resources

Now that I have narrowed my EPQ down to the topic of women's healthcare I have made a collection of resources I would like to evaluate.

Books 

  • Doing Harm by Maya Dusenbery  

  • Pain and Prejudice by Gabrielle Jackson 

 

Gresham College Seminars: 

  • Mind - the Gap: What's Missing from Medical Training? | Dr Caroline Elton 

  • Breast, Uterine and Ovarian Cancers   | Professor Chris Whitty FRS 

  • The Million Women Study Professor| Dame Valerie Beral 

 

Ted talks: 

  • It's Time to Talk About Women's Health | Cassie Dionne  

  • His and hers ... health care | Paula Johnson 

  • The lies we tell pregnant women’s | Sofia Jawed-Wessel 

  • Why medicine often has dangerous side effects for women   | Alyson McGregor 

  • The single biggest health threat women face | Noel Bairey Merz  

  • Breaking the Silence on Women's Health | Ann-Marie de Lange 

 

Podcasts 

  • The Visibility Gap 

  • Siemens Healthineers podcast: Women’s health: Closing the gender health gap 

  • About A Woman    Dr Katie Cowie 

  • The Health Gap – Exploring gender inequalities in UK healthcare 

  • Mind The Health Gap 

 

JSTOR 

  • The Impact of Sexism on Women's Health and Health Care 

Meredeth Turshen   (New York) 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3342962 

 

 

 

  • Health Perception and Health Care Access: Sex Differences in Behaviors and Attitudes   ( Zaragoza in Spain) 

Marta Gil-Lacruz, Ana I. Gil-Lacruz 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40607845 

 

  • Gender and Health Inequality 

Jen'nan Ghazal Read, Bridget K. Gorman  (Duke Univeristy) 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25735083 

 

  • Sexism in Women's Medical Care 

Mary A. Halas  (University of Nebraska) 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3346531 

 

  • SOCIAL CHANGE AND WOMEN'S HEALTH 

Peggy McDonough, Diana Worts, Anne McMunn, Amanda Sacker (London) 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/45131905 

 

 

Google Scholar 

  • Sex differences matter: Males and females are equal but not the same 

 panelIvan Szadvári, Daniela Ostatníková, Jaroslava Babková Durdiaková 

Sex differences matter: Males and females are equal but not the same - ScienceDirect 

 

  • A sex-specific switch between visual and olfactory inputs underlies adaptive sex differences in behavior 

Author links open overlay panelTetsuya Nojima 1 4, Annika Rings 1 4, Aaron M. Allen 1, Nils Otto 1, Thomas A. Verschut 2, Jean-Christophe Billeter 2, Megan C. Neville 1, Stephen F. Goodwin 1 3 5 

omen’s health outcomes: Is there a gender gap? 

  • Women’s health outcomes: Is there a gender gap? 

Nicole Winchester 

Women’s health outcomes: Is there a gender gap? - House of Lords Library 

  • Barriers to Women in Accessing Healthcare in the UK – A Review 

Genevieve Jeffrey 

Barriers to Women in Accessing Healthcare in the UK – A Review | LSE Public Policy Review 

 

  • Closing the gender health gap: the importance of a Women’s health strategy 

by Neena Modi 

Closing the gender health gap: the importance of a Women’s health strategy 

 

  • Addressing the Women’s Health Gap in the NHS 

Addressing the Women's Health Gap in the NHS - Pure Unity Health 

 

  • On average, women in the UK live longer than men, but they spend three more years in poor health 

Addressing the gender health gap | Blogs | Royal College of Nursing 

 

  • NHS 10 year plan: another lost decade for women’s health 

BMJ 2025; 390 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1600 (Published 31 July 2025) 

NHS 10 year plan: another lost decade for women’s health | The BMJ 

 

  • AI Gender Biases in Women’s Healthcare: Perspectives from the United Kingdom and the European Legal Space 

 AI Gender Biases in Women’s Healthcare: Perspectives from the United Kingdom and the European Legal Space | SpringerLink 

 

  • We need to transform women’s healthcare to tackle “medical misogyny” 

We need to transform women’s healthcare to tackle “medical misogyny” | The BMJ 




 

 

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