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Pregnant women have historically been excluded from the majority of medical research under the justification of protecting these women and their pregnancies from harm. But when new treatments are not tested in this population, we cannot know whether those treatments are safe and effective.
People who are sick or have chronic conditions can become pregnant, and those who are pregnant can get sick or develop health conditions. More than 90 percent of women take at least one medicine during pregnancy, and a significant portion are given recommended vaccines: the flu shot and Tdap, both of which protect not only the recipient but their family as well.
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There’s a puzzle in U.S. politics: If women win elections at the same rates as men, which they do, then why are there still so few women in political office?
In grappling with this oddity, the political science field in recent years has moved away from blaming voter bias and instead focused on why women don’t run as often as men in the first place. The thinking goes: Voters can t be biased, because women win at the same rates as men. The problem instead is that women are more “election-averse” they either don’t care as much about politics or they underestimate their own qualifications, making them reluct