Femtech Could Be the Solution to Medicine’s Male Bias

Female engineers are building a new health care industry, but its future depends on mostly male investors

MORGAN MEAKER
OneZero
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6 min readMay 16, 2019

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Illustration: Jenn Liv

CConsider the speculum. It’s hard to find a better symbol for how medicine regards female patients: with a cold, metal instrument that dates back to the 1840s. And while doctors use it to inspect…

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MORGAN MEAKER
OneZero

British Journalist. Mostly human rights in Europe and the Middle East. Working with @Guardian @Reuters @BBC etc