2024 Book Festival: Marina Gerner

MARINA GERNER 
The Vagina Business

Thursday, January 30 | 7:30 PM | Rice University  

Presented with Rice University Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and the Department of Sociology 

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.

Gerner has crafted an eye-opening exploration of the business of women’s health. Women make 80% of all health care decisions, yet only 4% of all medical research and development is focused on women’s health.

Patron Sponsors: 
Maxine and Steven Goodman 
Sherry and Gerald Merfish 

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