And, how accessible is this ideology for women at the margins of society?
Every year, tens of thousands of women die from preventable cancers. Now, researchers are claiming that patriarchy is dominating cancer care, research and policymaking. The way forward? A feminist approach to cancer care.
Co-author Professor Nirmala Bhoo-Pathy added, “Women are often expected to prioritise the needs of their families at the expense of their own health, sometimes leading to the postponement of seeking healthcare.”, even though, according to the European Commission, breast cancer was “estimated to be the most diagnosed tumour among all cancer types and the first cause of cancer death among women” in 2020.
Intersectionality, first coined by Kimberlé Krenshaw, an American civil rights activist, as a feminist term that acts as ”... a metaphor for understanding the ways that multiple forms of inequality or disadvantage sometimes compound themselves and create obstacles that often are not understood among conventional ways of thinking.”
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