Completely happy Ladies’s Historical past Month!
Yearly, March is devoted to honoring the accomplishments and breakthroughs of trailblazing girls the world over who’ve laid foundations for these strolling behind them.
Regardless of the challenges many ladies face by way of well being disparities and rights, there are these working to fight points, battle towards justice and uplift girls’s wellness within the District of Columbia, nation and world.
In keeping with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2021 “16.4 million girls have been employed within the well being care and social help trade,” making “77.6% of the full 21.2 million staff within the trade.”
When inspecting the industries that make up well being care and social help, girls account for roughly 84% of complete employment (2.6 million) in social help, 75% of complete employment (5.2 million) in hospitals, and 77.4% of complete employment (8.3 million) in well being providers, besides hospitals.
Amongst girls employed within the healthcare trade, a latest examine printed in Well being Affairs exhibits that Black girls are extensively represented on this house, as, “multiple in 5 Black girls within the labor drive (22.4%) are employed within the well being care sector.” Inside this demographic, 64.7% work in licensed sensible nurse or aide occupations, with 40% working in long-term care, exhibiting well being care as a number one employer for Black girls.
Additional, within the D.C. Metropolitan space, there are a bunch of ladies who’ve made nice strides for well being fairness and improved wellness outcomes of their communities.
Whereas girls dominate the well being sector throughout the nation, they’re the truth is the bedrock of high quality of healthcare and wellness help for folks and their households throughout the DMV.
In honor of Ladies’s Historical past Month, The Informer is dedicating this well being particular version to total girls’s wellness. Find out about the way forward for maternal well being care east of the Anacostia River because the District prepares to welcome the brand new Cedar Hill Hospital, and the ability of practising yoga in relation to trauma administration from the women of Daring Yoga. Additional, as The Washington Informer commemorates 60 years of publishing, this version additionally highlights “main girls over 60” who proceed to make an influence on girls’s well being and wellness.
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This March and past, we want you well being, security and total wellness!
