ICYMI Health features what we’re reading this week.
This week, HuffPosters wrote about two very different groups facing gender bias in the workplace: female politicians and lab rats.Â
Research shows female politicians face an uphill battle to get elected. They have to be more qualified than their male candidates to win votes, and even then, many people can’t picture women in leadership roles. On the science side, we learned that female animals are excluded from research for a distressing reason: researchers wrongly think female rats’ estrous cycles are too complicated to study, so they just don’t bother.
Setting gender-bias updates aside for a moment, we also read with interest about exciting innovations on the horizon, including an apple that never browns and the promise of uterine transplants for some infertile women.Â
Read on and tell us in the comments: What did you read and love this week?
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