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Listen in if you&#8217;ve got a spare 23 minutes! :) </p><p>Endometriosis represents a microcosm of gendered healthcare locally, nationally and internationally. It&#8217;s impacts are wide-ranging not just at an individual level - pain, fertility, ability to learn &amp; earn - but also for places of learning and workplaces, so a significant drag on the whole economy. </p><p>We have to be hopeful that we can achieve the changes - individual, community and systemic - that are desperately and deservedly needed.</p><p>https://www.ywcawaikato.org.nz/blog/post/150391/lets-talk-endometriosis-and-healthcare-inequality/</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.endolady.nz/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading The Endo Lady! 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