Six decades since the pill changed everything, there's still work to do on making contraception accessible and affordable. How far have we come in terms of innovation, affordability, and ensuring we can access the best methods possible? We expl

Leave no woman behind

Feb 4th, 2022 24m 32s

How do we ensure quality healthcare is delivered for all women in Australia, across all backgrounds, regions and contexts? An intersectional approach, rather than one that benefits only certain groups?We've seen and heard about some of the gend

The female entrepreneurs transforming women's health

Jan 28th, 2022 17m 40s

As the Women's Health Project returns this week, we look at the massive push by women to change the business of women's health, including how care is delivered. We look at how investors, inventors and others have failed to consider women's hea

The evolving expectations of fitness and exercise

Dec 10th, 2021 24m 6s

How much exercise should you do? How fit should you be? What type of movements should you be focusing on? That will depend on who you talk to. Or rather who is talking to you, at any point of the day.On TV, in the media, and 24/7 on social medi

Just squeeze? The pelvic floor mystery

Dec 1st, 2021 23m 53s

Pelvic floor! How does this all-important group of muscles remain such a mystery to women and girls, despite the role it serves in supporting everything from exercising to enjoying pleasurable sex, preventing bladder leaks and prolapse? Today,

Endometriosis sufferers got an apology. What next?

Nov 24th, 2021 19m 34s

Back in 2017, Health Minister Greg Hunt issued a rare apology to Australian women.He directed it towards the one in ten who suffer from endometriosis, noting that the condition should have been acknowledged at an earlier time. In a much more po

Eliminate Cervical Cancer? How this target became reality

Nov 16th, 2021 17m 36s

There is one area of women's health that's shaped a little different to others. Where significant progress has been made in recent history. That area is cervical cancer. It's the first and only cancer the World Health Organisation has set targe

The hushed but not-so secret world of menopause

Nov 9th, 2021 18m 47s

How did something that 51% of the population have or will experience become a “secret world”? On this episode, we’re talking about Menopause. And of course, it’s not a secret world. It’s actually THE world. But for some reason, it’s not so fre

The 'Norm Load' on women's health

Nov 2nd, 2021 22m 25s

Major health campaigns all over the world have urged women to take responsibility for getting men off the couch, but then failed to address the health needs of women.We're calling this the "Norm Load" and it may have just shaped more about our

Misogyny in women's health has a very long history

Oct 26th, 2021 20m 58s

How did it get to this? So much pain and illness in women ignored for so long? It starts with a history of misogyny in healthcare and continues with the fact the "default human" in so much health research is a 70-kilogram white male. In this fi

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Why Project Women's Health?

Oct 24th, 2021 2m 48s

Let's do this! We're investigating women's health on this podcast, including how it's been sidelined, overlooked and seen women's pain and health risks ignored for so long. It's a big project with a lot to cover. But we're determined to make a

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