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Fifty groups present demand for a new approach to women’s health

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Despite progress on gender equality, women across the European Union continue to live longer lives in worse health. According to a report ‘Towards an EU Strategy for Women’s Health’ presented in the European Parliament (4 February), women spend “approximately 25% more of their lives in poor health” than men, a gap rooted not in biology alone, but in policy failure.

The report, developed by over 50 expert organisations behind the European Institute of Women’s Health (EIWH), makes a clear case: women’s health has been systematically marginalised, fragmented, and reduced to reproductive care.

EIWH Director General Peg Maquire says that women across the EU experience significant disparities in prevention, diagnosis, treatment and health outcomes, “These inequities are not inevitable; they are...

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