Sentences with phrase «relative lack of women»

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Since the early 1990s, government policy on maternity care in England has moved towards policies designed to give women with straightforward pregnancies a choice of settings for birth.1 2 In this context, freestanding midwifery units, midwifery units located in the same building or on the same site as an obstetric unit (hereafter referred to as alongside midwifery units), and home birth services have increasingly become relevant to the configuration of maternity services under consideration in England.3 The relative benefits and risks of birth in these alternative settings have been widely debated in recent years.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lower rates of obstetric interventions and other positive maternal outcomes have been consistently found in planned births at home and in midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lacking.

Women say it's embarrassing, or it's too constraining to an active social life or working, and they struggle with the continued lack of support from relatives and friends.»

Dr. Lee also famously coined the term «estrogen dominance,» meaning a relative lack of progesterone compared to estrogen, which causes a list of symptoms familiar to millions of women.

A woman's level of empowerment will vary, sometimes enormously, according to other criteria such as her class or caste, ethnicity, relative wealth, age, family position etc. and any analysis of women's power or lack of it must appreciate these other contributory dimensions.

But what is equally undeniable is the relative lack of diversity among the group, which includes only three women.