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Between 1865 and 1965, there were nearly 5,000 racial terror lynchings of Black people in the United States. At least 120 of those victims, about 3%, were Black women. In the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism’s analysis, 14% of Black women lynching victims’ names were unknown. Recorded history focuses primarily on Black male victims, in part because of the false rationale for lynchings. Read more here: https://lynching.cnsmaryland.org/2021/11/10/black-women-lynchings/.

There seems to be a long-due need to smash taboos and stigma around periods, menopausal misery and other things many women have to go through.  Technology innovation can help, and make women’s lives better at that. Learn how women in the femtech space are stepping in to address women’s health and wellbeing needs neglected for too long.

What do we still need to do to create inclusive spaces?

Build a Dream is hosting its annual International Day of the Girl celebration online this year. Two sessions include Move the Dial Stories to begin the morning, then and afternoon of youth and adult speakers talking about blazing trails, diversity and inclusion.

Potential: Turning What's Possible into Reality

Featuring:

• Lara Skripitsky, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada
• Leen Li, CEO at Wealthsimple Foundation
• Jully Black, the platinum-selling recording artist known as “Canada’s Queen of R&B Soul"

Stories From Youth

• Why a teen girl invented an aid for the blind and how it lead to TedX
• How an orphan created her own organization to protect vulnerable children in Haiti

Corporate Panel

• What are companies looking for? How are corporations changing how they hire & advance their workers to create equitable spaces?

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/build-a-dream-presents-yes-she-can-yes-we-can-tickets-114902175500

Chance to win tickets: https://twitter.com/WEtechAlliance/status/1313513063698624514

After 10 years in manufacturing, I began volunteering for (and eventually worked at) Build a Dream, an organization that encourages young women to pursue under-represented career paths. I no longer work there but they are hosting this great upcoming event and I thought it fit well here. :)

If you have questions, let me know. I can answer what I can or direct you to the correct person. :D

Hi everyone!! I have a public health blog and I want to write an article about female puberty. The good, the bad and the ugly! In the post I want to have a section of advice from all women.

So what’s something you wish someone told you before you went through puberty? Or what’s some good advice someone did give you? All answers are welcome :)

If you’re an American woman in your 30s you likely know someone who is going through fertility treatment. What was once a stigmatized issue, leaving women feeling hopeless and alone, has become treatable. While female partners still bare the brunt of the pressure when baby-making stalls out, the treatment options have improved significantly in the last 30 years and more couples are successfully able to get pregnant than in the past.

One in eight American couples experience infertility, according to the CDC. After a woman turns 35, her fertility significantly decreases. The popular narrative around infertility often places the blame solely on the woman. However, as we discuss on this episode of Empowered Health with Emily Kumler, research suggests men play a role in approximately 40 to 50 percent of infertility cases.

There is also outdated research that suggested older women would be much more likely to have miscarriages, but our host unpacks that much of that research was heavily influenced by the use of amniocentesis on all women 35 years or older. That practice is no longer in place because it caused miscarriages in about one percent of all women told to be tested, that’s an incredibly high figure when you consider that ALL women 35+ were told to have an amnio. And those practices skewed the stats on older women and miscarriage rates because it was perhaps the amino that was to blame for the miscarriage not the mother’s age.

While the numbers around pregnancy are much more encouraging than once thought, we know that far too often women aren’t properly screened before engaging in in vitro fertilization. Doctors are eager to get a woman pregnant and that can lead to negligence in diagnosing the underlying condition that is preventing her from conceiving and carrying her baby to term. Instead we see a trend of all women being treated identically, which raises our concern.

One of our guests, Dr. Alan Penzias, a reproductive endocrinologist and the surgical director of Boston IVF, is also an associate professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School– and the director of the Fellowship Program in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, helps answer these concerns and gives listeners some important takeaway information that could protect them if they’re thinking of going through fertility treatment.

Natasha, a Boston-based special education teacher, shares her IVF journey with us.

“It’s probably the most emotionally charged thing I’ve ever done in my life,” Natasha tells Emily. “It’s also the most difficult thing I’ve ever done in my life.”

Thought some of you in this group might be interested in this, here's links to listen:

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Most people feel strongly about abortion issues, no matter which side you fall on. We produce a show called Empowered Health, a podcast focused on navigating women's health, and we wanted to take a hard look at the impact of having an abortion, versus being turned away for an abortion, have on the woman, the family and our society.

Demographer Diana Foster Greene of the University of California San Francisco, led a longitudinal study that compared the outcomes of women who received an abortion with women who were denied an abortion.  More than two-thirds of women denied an abortion ended up delivering that child. This Turnaway Study is perhaps the best research we have on what the future might look like if Roe v. Wade is overturned and states are free to ban abortion. Greene’s research is not political, she doesn’t consider the morality of abortions. Her work focuses on the life outcomes of those who are able to terminate a pregnancy versus those who are denied. 

We also talk with obstetrician-gynecologists Dr. Jenn Conti and Dr. Erica Cahill, OB-GYNs specializing in family-planning and hosts of The V Word podcast, who explain the challenges abortion providers face in the current climate. Conti and Cahill also discuss what it means for a fetus to be viable and how they handle patients who come to them for an abortion but remain adherently pro-life.

Approximately one in four American women will get an abortion before age 45. This makes it one of the most common procedures for an OB-GYN.

Figured this subreddit might be interested, here are links to the episode:

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A strange tearing sensation interrupted Kristin O’Meara’s regular morning run. As a cardiac nurse, she recognized the symptoms were the same as her patients who described what it felt like to have a heart attack. But she was in denial, how could she– a healthy woman– be having symptoms of a heart attack. Maybe it was her gallbladder or a panic attack? Anything other than a heart attack.

Yet, it turns out she had spontaneous coronary artery disease, which is an under-diagnosed acute heart condition that impacts women much more than men. It is hard to know how many women are impacted by SCAD as it is grossly understudied and understood, but we know that 90 percent of all SCAD episodes happen to women.

SCAD causes tears in the blood vessels of the heart and is typically followed by a heart attack. It usually affects women who don’t have the typical risk factors associated with heart disease.

Many patients, paramedics, and even doctors are unaware of SCAD, leaving them to diagnose heart attack symptoms as less dire ailments, like panic attacks.

We produce a show called Empowered Health, a podcast focused on navigating women's health, we just released an episode exploring what we know so far about SCAD.

Cardiologists and SCAD experts Dr. Malissa Wood of Massachusetts General Hospital and Dr. Sharonne Hayes of the Mayo Clinic teach us about this condition, which causes 40 percent of heart attacks in women under age fifty.

Figured this subreddit might be interested, here are links to the episode:

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In 1989, a team of anthropologists studying Hadza hunter-gatherers in northern Tanzania noticed how hard one particular group was working: the grandmothers.

“They were well into their sixties and their productivity was just as great as the women who are still in the childbearing years,” said Kristen Hawkes, one of the anthropologists involved.

Hawkes, now a professor at the University of Utah, has been studying human evolutionary biology– how life develops and adapts over time– for decades. She and her collaborators are credited with the data collection that backed up the grandmother hypothesis, widely considered one of the most important theories in modern evolutionary biology. The theory, originally proposed in the mid-60s’, concludes that grandmother's help is crucial to human longevity.

We produce a show called Empowered Health, a podcast focused on navigating women's health, we just released an episode with Kristen Hawkes on how crucial the grandmother hypothesis has been for human evolution and how this concept plays out in the Western world. We now understand post-menopausal women are essential for so many aspects of society, and we wanted to share the scientific evidence to back that notion.

The evidence Hawkes’ team gathered displayed how grandmothers' assistance with childcare and providing a stable and consistent source of food gave mothers more time and energy to reproduce and kept the community well-nourished during times when the men were unsuccessful at hunting large game– which was frequently the case. With grandma foraging– something young grandchildren are too small to be successful at– the children were more likely to survive.

The older grandma lived, the more children her daughter would have. Those offspring would inherit a survival advantage, passed on generation after generation through stronger genes and greater chances at nourishment. No wonder grandma is always trying to get you to finish your plate.

Today, we have so many different family structures, some of which do not involve having children, and we thought this topic was especially important, because it shows us that so much of what we’ve been told or taught about our value in society is not the full story. While the grandmothers in these hunter and gatherer societies served this essential function in their communities, supplying stable sources of food and helping with childcare, today we have women accomplishing important things for society outside the realm of reproduction too. In those societies, the opportunities were clearly defined and limited. In our society, post-menopausal women have the chance to radically alter their roles, to take on incredible responsibilities and help our entire society. When your children leave the nest, much like those grandmothers in these hunter-gatherer societies, you have a chance to drive massive impact if you want to. 

Figured this subreddit might be interested, here's links to the episode:

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Like so much in women’s health, there’s a lot to learn about the menopausal transition. Most women think this stage of life is when the ovaries stop producing estrogen, which is true, but only part of the story.

For years before that final stage, women experience symptoms like disrupted sleep, changes in menstrual flow, and irritability. These are due to subtler hormonal shifts now referred to as the late reproductive phase. A stage that affects women in their late thirties to early forties before they hit perimenopause. The key difference between these stages is that periods cycle regularly during the initial phase and become irregular during perimenopause. And perimenopause comes with its own host of unpleasant symptoms like vaginal dryness, skipped periods, and hot flashes.

Why is this important? Understanding that these symptoms are part of a normal life transition gives us a better understanding of our overall health. If you’re 39 and start feeling overwhelming anxious, you may go to your doctor looking for an anxiety-disorder diagnosis– and you might get one, when in fact it’s your hormonal imbalance that’s to blame rather than your stress management skills.

If your doctor isn’t aware that anxiety is a symptom of the late reproductive stage– which most are not– he may fail to ask you if you have the related symptoms, completely glossing over the fact that your anxiety may be a biological life stage that many women in their late thirties experience. This leads to misdiagnosis, potentially having you think you now have something much more serious, like a mental health condition, and may lead to the wrong kinds of medications.

We produce a show called Empowered Health, a podcast focused on navigating women's health, we just released an episode exploring the ways your body changes before your periods become irregular, a newly identified stage in a woman’s life known as the late reproductive phase, which is the run-up to perimenopause and menopause.

Our host speaks with experts Dr. Marcie Richardson, Dr. Nancy Woods and women’s health advocate Nina Coslov to better understand what we know and what remains unclear about the period before perimenopause. Richardson has been a practicing OB-GYN for decades, and Woods began the Seattle Midlife Women’s Health Study in 1989 to better understand the menopausal transition and early postmenopause. Coslov has collaborated with both on the Women Living Better website.

This episode kicks off a four-part series on the menopausal transition, starting with this one on the late reproductive phase. Our second episode was released yesterday, where we look at perimenopause's relationships with hormone therapy and then dive into the final stage: menopause and what the research is telling us. We’ll round out the series with a fun conversation with famed anthropologist Kristen Hawkes, known for coming up with the Grandmother Hypothesis, which many consider to be one of the most important breakthroughs in evolutionary biology in the last half-century.

Figured this subreddit might be interested, here's links to the first episode:

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We’ve all been told that eating fat will make us fat. But what is that advice based on? We aren’t told if we eat fish we’ll grow gills, we don’t think that if we eat grains our bodies will develop pellet-like deposits. That’s because we have some understanding of digestion. The body takes in food, breaks it all down and then distributes the nutrients based on what it needs and what it can discard. So why have we taken such a simple visual idea that eating fat makes us fat and adopted it whole cloth?

Many say we shouldn’t have accepted this idea and the fact that we did is directly related to why so many of us are tired, sick and fat. 

For 20 years, The New York Times best-selling author and investigative reporter Nina Teicholz was a vegetarian. Despite eating what she thought was a healthy diet, along with a daily run or bike ride, Teicholz struggled to lose weight, had fertility challenges and generally didn’t feel great. When she reintroduced meats into her life, things seemed to improve. This led her down the rabbit hole of why meats and dietary fats were taboo. The end result of her quest to understand how she’d been so misled is The New York Times bestseller "The Big Fat Surprise."

We produce a show called Empowered Health, a podcast focused on navigating women's health, we just released an episode featuring Teicholz about how dietary fats have been so vilified by both the research and media communities. Teicholz and our host discuss why the research on dietary fats is so weak and why women on low-fat diets experience very serious health problems, more so than men. Figured this subreddit may be interested in the episode.
Teicholz's work has disrupted orthodox nutrition beliefs, challenged the dietary guidelines, and debunked the weak science around dietary fat. Yet, the conventional research community still has trouble wrapping their heads around it.
The mainstream media doesn’t seem to have an awareness of what good vs. faulty nutrition research looks like, nor do they have time to dig into the funding sources of large studies. The media is just as confused as most Americans about what’s good or bad research. Most daily reporters do not have time to dive deep into these important topics and instead just report on whatever the recent press release from reputable institutions says. This is terrible reporting and has a dangerous impact on all of us. We think it also makes the medial culpable for our current obesity and chronic illness environment, something Teicholz and Kumler are more than aware of and explain in depth this week. 

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You’ve probably heard that heart disease is the leading cause of death in women. But, what is less known is that women suffer from different forms of heart disease than men. Research on female bodies and heart disease is extremely limited. We are learning that women experience different symptoms, have hearts that break down in different ways, which require different tests and need different treatments. We also need a host of new doctors who understand and accept that our hearts respond differently to stress and aging than our male counterparts. 

According to the Center for Disease Control, one in five female deaths in 2017 was attributed to heart disease. Yet, according to a study by the American Heart Association only a little more than half of women are thinking about this killer, a shocking stat given that 50 percent of heart disease deaths are sudden and catastrophic.

The term heart disease can be confusing; it’s a catch-all for many cardiovascular conditions, including coronary heart disease, arrhythmia, congestive heart failure, heart attacks, also known as myocardial infarction, spontaneous coronary artery dissection, coronary microvascular disease or small vessel disease among others. 

I'm a producer for a women's health podcast, Empowered Health, and while we're working on episodes of all different types of heart disease, we just put out an episode focusing on the small vessels of your ticker. These tiny arterial branches are more likely to be blocked in women’s hearts than men's and because of that, less is known about diagnosing this condition and treating it.  

There are no official guidelines for coronary microvascular disease and women are routinely told incorrectly that their symptoms aren’t related to their hearts. We talked to two experts on the cutting edge of treating and diagnosing women with this condition, so you will leave this episode with a clear understanding of what this condition is, what the symptoms are and when you absolutely must demand testing, and of course how to do that.

We talk to experts cardiologists Dr. Janet Wei of the Barbara Streisand Women’s Heart Center at the Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute and Dr. Giulia Sheftel of Newton-Wellesley Hospital to learn more about how these blockages happen and the interplay of estrogen and heart health.

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What if all the diet advice you have listened to is wrong?

Seventeen years ago, in July of 2002, Gary Taubes broke what I thought was to be the biggest story of our time. All the advice we've been spoon-fed about counting calories, eating low fat, avoiding salt, all of it, was not based on any scientifically proven hypothesis. The dietary advice handed down from the food guidelines established by the US government, implemented in school lunch programs, hospitals, military and so forth was all based on a few white men from the East Coast’s theories. That right, none of it was tested in clinical trials and found to be true.

There is evidence that the Germans in pre-WWII had an understanding of how hormonal regulation influences our ability to fatten up or slim down, but that research was thrown out when we won the war and those men in charge of studying nutrition decided instead to cherry-pick data points that confirmed their preconceived predilections.

Now, we’re a nation of fat sick people.

We produce a show called Empowered Health, a podcast focused on navigating women's health, we just released an episode about this research and history with the expert on the subject, Gary Taubes. He’s the author of Good Calories, Bad Calories; Why We Get Fat, The Case Against Sugar and others. Taubes is an investigative journalist who painstaking went through all the research and all the footnotes in all the research to determine what was valid advice and what’s garbage.

His reporting is compelling and I was sure he was about to change the world. But, he didn’t. Yes, the needle was nudged, but the scandal has hardly had the influence I would have expected given the massive impact it has on our lives.

“Nobody's trying to deceive you because they know the truth,” Taubes said. “They're trying to deceive you because they've already fooled themselves.”

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In Italy, pregnant women are likely to enjoy a glass of wine once in a while. In Japan, sushi remains a staple for dinner even during the third trimester. In America, women are told over and over again that these items– and a laundry list of others– must be restricted during pregnancy. Economist Emily Oster breaks down the typical pregnancy recommendations with data-driven research in “Expecting Better” to provide women a better understanding of the choices they can make during pregnancy.

Oster’s latest book, “Cribsheet”, weighs the pros and cons of sleep training, breastfeeding, and the many other decisions parents have to make during early childhood. I'm a producer for Empowered Health, a podcast focused on navigating women's health, we just released an episode Oster explains how understanding the data behind pregnancy and parenting advice can help us make better decisions for our individual situations.

Figured this group might be interested in what Oster has to say surrounding the topic, links to listen:

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Across America, nearly 12 million women and girls aged 12 to 52 are living in poverty. This 40-year span is the average range of a U.S. female’s menstruation. If most of these females are struggling to afford food, how can they be expected to buy tampons?

Menstrual products are not SNAP eligible, meaning they are not covered by food stamps, yet they are one of the most requested items at homeless shelters. To put it in perspective: a 36-count box of tampons costs about $7. The average woman goes through approximately 240 tampons per year. That’s a set back of $48 annually and $1920 over her entire menstruation– even more if she has a heavier flow.

The American College of Obstetrics estimates two-thirds of low-income women don’t have enough money to buy menstrual products at least one time per year. It is also an impediment to education: a study by Always found that one in five girls have missed school due to a lack of period protection.

Financial status aside, we’re all getting penalized for having our periods. Products that count as a medical expense are exempt from sales tax, like band-aids, walkers, sunscreen– even Viagra gets a tax break in every state besides Illinois. Yet menstrual products are only currently tax-free in 15 states; five of those states don’t even have sales tax in general. Many period equity advocates have pressed on why tampons and sanitary napkins are taxed since menstruating is a biological function.

I'm a producer for Empowered Health, a podcast focused on navigating women's health, we just released an episode all about period poverty, menstrual equity, and the tampon tax.

We talk with Nadya Okamoto of PERIOD. The Menstrual Movement and Kate Sanetra-Butler of Dignity Matters, two leaders working to end period poverty, who break down why it should be a right to health for every woman to have access to menstrual products. Sanetra-Butler’s organization is on a mission to get menstrual products into all the schools, shelters, clinics, and whenever needed in Massachusetts, currently supporting over 2,500 women and girls every month. PERIOD. mobilizes college and high school students to advocate for period equity in over 400 chapters nationwide. Colorado Rep. Leslie Herod fills us in what it’s like to get your period in prison and the bill she sponsored to better those conditions.

Between teenagers missing class due to a lack of menstrual products, incarcerated females trading sex for a tampon, and 35 states of women taxed for their femininity, there is a real need to address how our country views menstruation. Figured this group might be interested in what they has to say surrounding the topic, links to listen:

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Every hour an American veteran dies by suicide. Behind every one of them, a wife, girlfriend, partner and often young children are left trying to process the loss and their new future. Who cares for these survivors? How do we, as a country, honor them? Turns out until recently we weren’t. I'm a producer for Empowered Health, a podcast focused on navigating women's health, and in honor of Memorial Day, we just released an episode will that unpacks the parallel between those veterans who are traumatized by a comrade’s death abroad and the women who have a similar experience when they lose their loved ones at home.

After Kim Ruocco lost her husband, Marine Corps Maj. John Ruocco, she recognized first-hand the lacking of support for women in her position. Ruocco’s had a connection that was in the perfect position to help. Brigadier General Jack Hammond, the executive director of Homebase, a Boston-based organization in partnership with Mass General, that was successfully treating veterans with post-traumatic stress and complex grief. By June 2017, the Homebase team came up with an iteration of their program to be catered to military widows. In this episode, we hear from Ruocco, General Hammond, and Dr. Bonnie Ohye, director of the family initiative and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and hear how this unique two-week intensive program has given these women permission to live their lives again. Thought this group may have an interest in listening to the podcast:

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(if you want a 3-minute read version, we also have a sister column in Boston Magazine: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/2019/05/24/heroes-who-dont-wear-uniforms/

I’m a producer for Empowered Health, a podcast that is aiming to demystify women’s health, Author Sarah McColl discusses her memoir “Joy Enough”, a tribute to her late mother. McColl joins Empowered Health for a conversation on the mother-daughter dynamic, transitioning through periods of loss, and experiencing joy during life’s ups and downs. Figured this group might be interested in hearing the background behind this great memoir. Some links to listen:

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For most of modern history, people considered Alzheimer's to be a hopeless diagnosis, with nothing to do but wait for the inevitable decline of one's mind. Neuroscientist Dr. Dale Bredesen has given people hope. Even those predisposed with two copies of the ApoE4 genes can manipulate their lifestyle to prevent the expression of these genes. Dr. Bredesen is having results prevent and reversing Alzheimer's in an unprecedented way.

I’m a producer for Empowered Health, a podcast that is aiming to demystify women’s health, where we interviewed Dr. Bredesen on how following his protocol can starve off Alzheimer's. Figured this group might be interested in his research!

Dr. Bredesen explains step-by-step the ways you can prevent this devastating disease and even tells us the exact tests one should get to determine your risk factor. Decline starts 20 years before symptoms are present, so Bredesen’s Protocol makes is an important consideration for anyone worried about cognitive impairment later on in life.  It's never too early to prevent this disease.

One source tells us what it's like to care for her mother who was diagnosed with the disease a few years ago and how that experience has increased her resolve to do all she can to prevent the same fate from impacting her life, and the lives of her children.

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Our sister column, also called Empowered Health, comes out weekly in Boston Magazine where our host breaks down the same topic if you prefer a print version.

Over the past few decades, the maternal mortality rate has continued to decline in all the developed countries– except for the United States. Women today as twice as likely as their mothers to die before, during, or after childbirth. For black mothers, this risk is even greater. CDC just released an updated analysis on this the other day, and we produced an episode on why this is such a huge crisis in the U.S.: https://empoweredhealthshow.com/the-u-s-maternal-mortality-crisis-part-i/

Hi everyone! I'm a producer for a new woman's health podcast, Empowered Health, and we just put out an episode diving into the connection between the suppression of female anger and autoimmune diseases, the provenance of American rape laws, the challenges of raising strong daughters, why women are expected to wait in long bathroom lines and other societal issues. Our host Emily discusses all this with feminist writer Soraya Chemaly, who's TedTalks you may have seen.

Feel free to check us out– our host Empowered Health has a sister column in Boston Magazine where our host breaks down the same topic if you prefer a print version. Figured this group might have some good feedback on how the medical world treats women. A big issue we are hoping to tackle with the podcast is how underrepresented females are in clinical trials, and how female pain is often trivialized. Let us know if you have any ideas for future episodes around women and health or a personal story you want to share about health feel free to email me at empoweredhealthpodcast@gmail.

Episode: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/empowered-health/id1452440833?mt=2&i=1000433896087

Article: Should Women Be More Angry

http://makemorenoise.libsyn.com/

Interesting podcast here which examines the difference between male and female humour. Basically the summary is when men tell jokes in work it's a sign of "alpha maleness" and when women use humour in the workplace it's seen as a sign of flippancy and a tactic women use to hide their lack of knowledge.

It's really good podcast and delves into the difference between male and female humour. (I.e. in general men make themselves the butt of the joke and men make others the butt of the joke.)

Interesting discussion between two women talking about how they use humour. Also controversial point that women are much more funny than men. Interested to see what blokes think...