Forget femtech: Let's talk about why most health products default to 'mentech' | Sifted
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Forget femtech: Let's talk about why most health products default to 'mentech' | Sifted
Our phones are designed to fit in men’s hands rather than women’s. Many medicines are less effective on Black and Asian people, because the pharmaceutical industry often develops its treatments for white customers. When we build technology, we might make these systems of power more durable—by encoding them into infrastructure that is more inscrutab... See more
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