SXSW 2025
The Vagina Business: Innovative Breakthroughs in Women's Health
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In "The Vagina Business: The Innovative Breakthroughs that Could Change Everything in Women's Health," award-winning journalist Marina Gerner PhD shines a light on the innovators challenging the status quo in women's healthcare. Despite making 80% of healthcare decisions, only 4% of medical R&D focuses on women's health issues. Through interviews with 100 entrepreneurs, researchers, and investors across 15 countries, Gerner highlights groundbreaking solutions for periods, childbirth, menopause, and more, while also exposing the hurdles femtech startups face in a male-dominated VC world.
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Takeaways
- Overcoming stigma: Strategies for breaking down the embarrassment and taboos surrounding women's health to enable more open discussion and innovation.
- The business case for femtech: Why women's health represents a massive untapped market opportunity worth over $1 trillion.
- Cutting-edge innovations: Examples of the latest technologies and products transforming women's health, from fertility to menopause.
Speakers
- Marina Gerner, Author of The Vagina Business, Award-winning Journalist & Adjunct Professor at NYU Stern, Freelance journalist for The Times, Guardian, Wired, WSJ and other places
Organizer
Angela Johnson, Client Services Director, Untitled Partners
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