2024 Book Festival: Marina Gerner

MARINA GERNER 
The Vagina Business

Wednesday, January 29 | 7:30 PM | Rice University  

Award-winning journalist and adjunct professor at NYU, Marina Gerner takes an in-depth and sometimes shocking look at the inequities found in the funding of female-focused health companies and scientific research. From periods and childbirth to menopause and heart health, Gerner reveals that female pain has been normalized and unexplored. Gerner’s work has been widely published in The Economist’s 1843, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Financial Times and Wired and exposes the many obstacles entrepreneurs face when it comes to innovating for women’s health—even today.

Patron Sponsors: 
Maxine and Steven Goodman 
Sherry and Gerald Merfish 

Community Partners: Jewish Federation of Greater Houston – Women’s Philanthropy, NCJW