Country Quote by Margaret Chan

Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them -…

— Gloria Steinem

Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that…

— Melinda Gates

Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

Women's education has a much greater impact [on], for example, fertility. Men's education, if our studies are correct, ha[s] almost no impact on fertility.…

— Amartya Sen

When women and men have approximately equal life expectancies, it seems to be because women die not only in childbirth (fewer than thought) but…

— Warren Farrell

It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and…

— Martha Plimpton

Although a government study found that men's health was much worse than women's health or the health of any minority group, headlines around the…

— Warren Farrell

I think doctors have really come up to speed and understand that more women than men die of heart disease. [But] all the research…

— Laura Bush

“The equivalent of five jumbo jets’ worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered. The remedy? America…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive…

— Rod Blagojevich

There's so much going on in the healthcare system that makes it difficult for women to really have a strong economic hold if insurance…

— Michelle Obama

Improved maternal health benefits the whole of society.

— Isabella Lovin