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• A local set designer is unable to find small enough working gloves for his all-female crew

• A woman is prescribed Tamsulosin to assist with kidney stones. Her breathing was affected and after she researched the drug, found that no women had been involved in any clinical trials.

• A woman's doctor recommended over-the-counter medication to prevent macular degeneration.  The medication made the woman very ill. She found that pharmaceutical companies added an ingredient to the formularly that had not been used in the clinical trials. When she found a formulary without the extra ingredient, the medicine worked.

• In 1990, a bill was introduced in WA state to require 3 toilets for women for every 1 toilet for men in all new construction for public buildings.

 

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Throughout the country and the world, these things are also true

• Women are 47% more likely to be seriously injured in car accidents.  Why? Because anatomically correct female crashtest dummies are just now being used in the US AND crash tests have not been conducted with women as drivers.

• The unpaid labor provided largely by women has never been included in the GNP (gross national product) of any country, This work that helps the world run smoothly (child and elder care, school, hospital, library volunteers, bookkeeping in family businesses) has an estimated value almost equal to some countries GDP and yet, women's work is very under-valued. Why? Because originators of the GDP measure felt women's lives were too complicated to count and so excluded them all.