Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion

Gender bias can show up in health care in many ways but its prevalence has led to women being misdiagnosed, overmedicated, or dismissed altogether. As additional identities are intersected with gender identity, self-advocacy can become more difficult or impossible. The audience to walk away with tools to better advocate for themselves as patients as well as how to use that advocacy power with other women, especially those whose agency has been taken away.