Women make up 51% of the US population and control up to 80% of health decisions in their families, but researchers still have a long way to go.
"We posit that the major problem is powerpower in research, power in the sense of political will and power in societal roles that typically favor men or default to men as the comparator," write Megan Ranney and Elizabeth Cohn at the New York Stock Exchange in an op-ed.
"Up until now, adding more women to male-centric studies has been the go-to plan, but that may not 'power' the study enough to detect the factors we care about or need to address," they write.
"For example, it may only give us enough data to detect the difference between men and women, but what about differences within and between women."
That's why they've created the Women's Health Access Matters report, which calls for legislation and funding for women-only research.
The report found that investing in women's health research would generate $14 billion in the economy, a 538% return on investment, and that women's health is good for everyone, not just women.
"It's not politics," they write.
"Let's be clear: women's health
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