Anu Duggal, the founding partner at Female Founders Fund, guest wrote today’s Term Sheet essay on how women’s health has been ignored for most of history, and why this is the year to double down.
After her doctor misdiagnosed her perimenopause as herpes, Halle Berry knew it was time to open a national conversation. Earlier this Women’s Health Month, the actress joined a group of U.S. senators outside the Capitol Building to call for more federal funding for research into a critical part of the female experience that should not be hard to fund, let alone discuss. “The shame has to be taken out of menopause,” she said. “We have to talk about this very normal part of our life that happens.”
