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Women ’ s Law Center , in 2019 , 11.4 percent of adult women ages nineteen to sixtyfour nationwide did not have health insurance compared to 5.3 percent of Rhode Island women .
But every day , Planned Parenthood of Southern New England ’ s Providence clinic treats marginalized groups , such as women of color , low-income individuals , immigrants and members of the transgender community .
“ Women tend to pass legislation that ’ s good for families and what ’ s good for families is good for all Rhode Islanders . We know what our priorities are , and we really push them . Now we are getting a lot of work done that we couldn ’ t under that patriarchal , authoritarian leadership we were living under for decades .” — Representative Susan Donovan
“ Certain folks have particular challenges accessing health care . We view our patients under the lens of intersectionality . The system leaves a lot of these people behind because of these identity factors ,” says Zari Watkins , chief operating officer . “ We try to close that gap — to capture folks who would otherwise have trouble accessing high-quality care .”
Sexism in health care has a long history . It is rooted in ancient myths about the mysteries of the female body and its innate inferiority to the male counterpart . Historically , women were excluded from medical practice and research , and from clinical trials , on the belief that female hormones introduced too many variables — they simply could not be studied . This bias showed up in myriad other ways , from early male anatomy artists who drew women ’ s craniums smaller and their hip bones wider , to the attribution of women ’ s physical disease to psychological causes . Hysteria was once a medical term coined from the Greek word for “ womb ” to describe a female nervous condition .
And it continues to this day . A 2019 survey in USA Today about gender dis-
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