Season Two
Exploring the systems shaping women’s lives—from healthcare and reproductive law to media visibility and climate activism.
We weren’t taught. Not in school. Not in doctors’ offices. Not even by the people we trusted most.
And yet—we were expected to know.
Health inequality isn’t abstract.
It shows up in real lives—every day.
This week on The Women’s Current, we’re joined by journalist and author Irin Carmon, whose latest book Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America reveals what happens when pregnancy collides with policy, politics, and power.
Through the stories of five women, Irin exposes a system that too often fails the very people it was meant to protect.
What emerges is not a collection of rare tragedies—
but a pattern.
What happens when women are seen — but still not heard?
Linda Villarosa exposes how systemic bias shapes women’s health — and why telling the truth is the first step toward change.
