Linda Caroll
1 min readMar 10, 2020

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Yup. Women make up 70-80% of the U.S. health-care workforce, but they’re underrepresented in leadership, according to the NIH.

According to Susan Wood, director of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health at George Washington University, the lack of women in the coronavirus task force “is not for there being a lack of qualified women in public health.

Want to know the kicker? In the cases of evacuations or quarantines, supplies such as diapers and baby formula are often included — but menstrual supplies are often forgotten. No women at the table. Just more same old, same old.

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