At WWD x FN x Beauty Inc's annual Women in Power event, oncologist Dr. Elizabeth Comen of NYU shared tips for women to advocate for their health.
event, Dr. Elizabeth Comen, a breast cancer oncologist and associate professor, medicine, at NYU Langone/Grossman School of Medicine, asked the women in the audience to raise their hand if they’d ever been called hysterical. Many hands flew up — reflecting the larger sentiment behind Comen’s presentation, that women’s health care has a long way to go.
During her presentation, Comen walked the audience through some shocking statistics, advertisements and medical concepts that have circulated through the years related to women’s health. She called attention to the fact that women weren’t required to be in clinical trials until 1993; that women’s reproductive organs were previously represented in medical textbooks as an inverted penis, and that advertisers tried to sell women Lysol-based douches.
“We all want to feel seen and validated and heard as whole people, and that has not been the history of women’s health,” she said. “This insidious incuriosity that has woven itself through the tapestry of health care for women is terrible and continues to play out today,” Comen said.
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