SHE+ Foundation

From Silence to Systems Change: What Sexual Assault Awareness Month Should Actually Demand

For generations, women have been taught to tolerate their pain, minimize their symptoms, and to wait it out. Women have been dismissed, and made to believe discomfort is just a part of life.  Even though women make up more than half of the population, women’s health has historically been underfunded, underresearched, and ignored. The result? Delayed diagnoses, dismissed symptoms, preventable complications, and a system that too often treats women’s pain as anecdotal rather than urgent.  For...

Women’s History Month is not only about honoring the past. For too long, women’s sexual health has been long marginalized within medicine. Recognizing that history shows us why advocacy, investment in research, and education are still needed.