About Us
Empower and Transform
Women’s Wellbeing empowers and transforms women towards better health and wellbeing. We work towards eliminating gender inequality and building platforms for women to grow and flourish throughout their developmental stages. We do this in collaboration with women, grass-root organisations and private & public institutions.
Facts on female health inequalities in the UK
Women from all walks of life use our services. These include women living in poorer health conditions due to lower socio-economic status, disability, ethnicity or living in poverty and areas of high deprivation. We use a life course approach on women’s health to provide positive wellbeing strategies for their ongoing health.
- Women are more likely to experience domestic, physical and sexual violence, which can lead to financial instability and adverse mental and physical health
- According to a survey menopause symptoms resulted in 1 in 10 women leaving their employment as women did not feel supported by employers or listened to by healthcare professionals
- Infant Mortality Scrutiny report identified that the number of child death in Birmingham are disproportionally higher across England and highly correlated with poverty, geography and ethnicity. Pakistani communities are overrepresented in infant mortality, and migrant women experience higher rates of maternal deaths, with black women four times more likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth than white women
- According to Public Health England women have a higher life expectancy but spend less proportion of their life free from disability and illness in comparison to men
- According to the 2018 to 2020 office of National Statistics (ONS), females living in the most deprived areas were expected to live less than two-thirds (66.3%) of their lives in good general health, compared with more than four-fifths (82.0%) in the least deprived areas.
- Women have a higher life expectancy but spend less proportion of their lives free from disability and illness in comparison to men.
- According to Alzheimer's research, women from lower socio-economic backgrounds who have lower levels of education suffer higher indices of poor health. They are likely to have higher onset of dementia compared to those from higher socio–economic backgrounds.
- Women have higher rates of depression, which can be a risk factor for Dementia and Alzheimer’s and are given less support within health care systems in comparison to men
The National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) have identified that 4 out of 5 women are not being heard by healthcare professionals and therefore are failing to meet the needs of women. Women are still faced with stigma, isolation, lack of cultural awareness, stereotyping and barriers accessing reliable information related to women’s health. We work with partners to collectively address disparities, inequalities and other barriers to empower women to access good quality healthcare.