Learn About Women: Education
Canadian women spend 24 per cent more time in poorer health than men, driven by conditions that affect them differently, disproportionately, and uniquely compared to men. Yet their health is studied less, funded less, and diagnosed later.
The need: If we want better outcomes for women, we have to start where systems are shaped, through training, teaching, awareness, and focused education about women and their bodies. We need to learn about women properly, consistently and early.
Action the IWK Foundation is taking to improve education:
- Our podcast, The Fifth Wave: Changing the Healthcare Bias Against Women, brings research experts from around the world into conversations about women’s health, because education about women’s health belongs to all of us. Listen here.
- We are also having important conversations with champions within medical schools, asking a hard but necessary question: how do we move beyond the reality that only 9 per cent of medical school curriculum in Canada focuses on women’s health?
- We are exploring an exciting new partnership with The Discovery Centre to drive transformational change about women’s health through education and awareness for middle school students…system change happens when we reach young minds early.