Institute for Women's Health events for International Women's Day 2021
Your Fertile Years; what you need to know to make informed choices
Author: Professor Joyce Harper
The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is #ChooseToChallenge #iwd2021
A challenged world is an alert world.
Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions – all day, every day.
We can choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality.
We can choose to seek out and celebrate women’s achievements.
Collectively, we can create an inclusive and more gender-equal world.
From challenge comes change, so let’s all choose to challenge.
The Institute for Women’s Health will be hosting four, free, online events to celebrate #iwd2021. Please book via the Eventbrite links. All events will be available on YouTube.
Sunday 7th March, 7pm – 8pm.
Have you ever been taught about how your body works; from the menstrual cycle to the menopause? Do you know that a woman’s fertility declines from her mid 30s? Do you know when your fertile window is? Or what you need to do to have a healthy pregnancy and birth?
Joyce Harper, Professor of Reproductive Science and author of Your Fertile Years, was joined by a panel of fertility experts to discuss why we need fertility education with a Q and A from the audience. Chairing the event was Dr Larisa Corda, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and a passionate champion of women’s rights and on the panel were Dr Mara Simopoulou, Chair of the Greek MyFertility campaign, Emma Haslett, Journalist and co-host of @bigfatnegative podcast, Mariana Martins, Assistant Professor at Porto University and a Clinical Psychologist and Alexandra Carvalho, a clinical embryologist developing strategies to raise awareness about reproductive health.
During the event we were asked about a reliable source of information. Besides Joyce’s book, a recommended web site is the Australian fertility education site.
The recording of this event can be watched here.
Joyce Harpers latest book, Your Fertile Years, will be published in April 2021, by Sheldon Press.
Read more
Your Fertile Years is available to pre-order on Amazon now. Contact joyce.harper@ucl.ac.uk if you would like Joyce to give a talk to any group or at any event.
Blogs
Chapter 1: Knowing Your Body; Understanding Your Menstrual Cycle And Fertile Window
Chapter 2: The biological clock, female fertility decline
Chapter 3: Optimising your reproductive health
Chapter 4: Everything you should know about sex
Chapter 5: If you do not want to become pregnant, how do you prevent it?
Chapter 6: How Can Sexually Transmitted Infections Affect Fertility?
Chapter 7: What you should know about pregnancy and childbirth
And videos to accompany the blogs on my YouTube Channel
Why I wrote Your Fertile Years
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
9 things you should know if you want kids in the future
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