Roopa Dhatt: How a simple statistic helped put women on the global health map

In 2015, practising physician Roopa Dhatt and her colleagues wangled their way into the World Health Assembly in Geneva, and counted how many of the chief delegates representing countries were women. It was 23%, despite women making up 70% of the global health and social workforce.

Originally posted on the BMJ.

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