{"id":5750,"date":"2026-08-04T15:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/stourbridge\/?p=5750"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:22:25","slug":"our-work-to-stand-up-for-women-and-girls-ill-health-affects-women-disproportionately-to-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/stourbridge\/2026\/08\/04\/our-work-to-stand-up-for-women-and-girls-ill-health-affects-women-disproportionately-to-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Work to stand up for Women and Girls- Ill-health affects women disproportionately to men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/stourbridge\/files\/2026\/08\/UN-SDG-3-Health-page-300x154-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5751 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/stourbridge\/files\/2026\/08\/UN-SDG-3-Health-page-300x154-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inadequate health provision detrimentally impacts women, their families, their future health and wellbeing and limits their opportunities in life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Women spend a greater proportion of their lives in ill health compared with men. They also face greater obstacles to access the care they need.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why Soroptimists work tirelessly to advocate for improvements in health provision for women and why our programme work focuses on providing knowledge and support to women in need.<\/p>\n<p>The advancement of health is one of our 6 charitable objects and a critical UN Sustainable Development Goal. We know that more work and research is needed on gender-specific issues as well as on the effects of gender-neutral illnesses which adversely affect women because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Miscarriage, menopause and maternal mortality remain underfunded and under supported;<\/li>\n<li>Women have a disproportionate burden of unpaid care responsibilities, which can lead to physical and psychological health problems, as well as meaning they are often lost to the workforce;<\/li>\n<li>Mental health, particularly conditions such as depression, anxiety, and dissociative disorders associated with sexual abuse, disproportionately affects women;<\/li>\n<li>Harmful practices like female genital mutilation and child, early and forced marriage threaten physical and mental health;<\/li>\n<li>Women are under-represented in clinical trials;<\/li>\n<li>Poor health provision and acts of violence against women and girls reduce their chances of completing education, negatively impacting their future opportunities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The right to the highest attainable standard of health is broadly recognised as <u>a fundamental human right<\/u>. The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA) defines health as \u201c<strong>a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity<\/strong>.\u201d<a name=\"_ftnref1\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soroptimistinternational.org\/women-and-health\/#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the work of Soroptimists across the globe to help tackle challenges here https:\/\/sigbi.org\/what-we-do\/our-work\/health\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Inadequate health provision detrimentally impacts women, their families, their future health&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":5751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Our Work to stand up for Women and Girls- Ill-health affects women disproportionately to men | News | Blog | Events | SI Stourbridge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Stourbridge : Blog &amp; News : Our Work to stand up for Women and Girls- Ill-health affects women disproportionately to men : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Stourbridge . 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