We're on a mission to help more women learn about themselves and the companies trying to put control of our health into our own hands through sharing our own personal journeys. We hope you'll come with us! Caroline Criado Perez is a writer and feminist activist. Her new book, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men , will be published by Chatto & Windus in March.

Common symptoms of a vitamin overdose may include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, fatigue, dizziness, and even organ damage in severe cases No man is above the law, and no man is below it…” says Roosevelt, reinforcing the importance of upholding the Rule of Law. However, Helena Kennedy’s Eve was Framed (Vintage 1993) will show you that prejudice could be stronger than the rule of law itself, bringing injustice to someone who is “below [the law]”– to women. I read this book during the summer before coming to Oxford and it has proved surprisingly useful in my studies so far. At the start, Kennedy warns that this book is not to be treated as an academic account but as a polemic, her own take on how our law fails women. However, while studying criminal law I found myself constantly drawing on her accounts of how women have been treated in famous cases and how our laws struggle to deal with female victims and defendants. For example, one of the first pieces of legislation you would study in criminal law as Law student at Oxford is the section of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 dealing with the partial defence to murder of loss of control. This was designed to help people who are victims of domestic violence and go on to kill their abusive partner. However, the courts continue to struggle to deal with this issue effectively. Kennedy details several well-known cases and gives her interpretation of how the courts have failed to adequately take the defendant’s situation into account. Fat-soluble vitamins are more likely to cause toxicity as they are stored in the body's fat tissues and can accumulate over timeHelena analyses the treatment of women in the British Legal system, including those who work in it, are victims, the accused, and convicted criminals. The Latest. We’ll share links to news and updates in women’s health, FemTech, and FamTech. Your time is valuable. We’re doing the reading and sharing the knowledge And did God lie when God said, “but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.” Even according to the canonical Bible, the serpent was right on that count. As the serpent hissed into Eve’s ear: “You will not die; for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” The fight for #abortionrights #womensrights #transrights and the rights of so many will continue to go on. We don't know what the future holds, but we can speak up and fight for everyone's right to make decisions about their health. As a survivor myself I found the sections about sexual violence particularly illuminating and infuriating. There is still a troubling, largely unconscious, perception that entitlement to a woman's body is something that can be debated. Here is a quote from the House of Lords during the reading debate of the Sexual Offences Act:

One way of paraphrasing the barely hidden subtext of the Garden of Eden story is that, “Breaking the commandments of orthodox religion, the teenagers experimented with drugs and sex, and there were consequences.” Another slightly more hidden meaning is buried in that line that Eve saw, “the tree was desired to make one wise” — that is, to gain knowledge beyond what one’s childhood community permits, which could include paradigm-shifting scientific knowledge or transgressive moral knowledge that challenges the limitations of social norms. Think of our recent culture wars over evolution, Civil Rights, or same-sex marriage.Majority of the text is devoted to the stereotyping imposed on women in courts, whether they appear as defendants (unnatural viragos), plaintiffs (probably asked for it), or witnesses (notoriously unreliable). Far fewer women actually get prosecuted, but those that do, suffer harsher sentences than their male counterparts for equivalent crimes. In the midst of this, the court does not take into account other aspects such as depriving children of a mother and the condition of the woman in jail. What is great about this book is that there are numerous real-life examples and cases given, allowing a greater insight to Kennedy's statements.