OHT Women's Health: Intersectionality in FemTech Solutions

FemTech is flying - but too often it’s still built for a single “default” user: cis, non-disabled, English-speaking, always-online. Real lives aren’t that tidy. In the UK, Black women face nearly 3× the risk of maternal death compared with white women, and rates double in the most deprived areas. Meanwhile, almost 1 in 20 adults still have no home internet, rising to 13% of over-65s - and around 21 million working-age people can’t complete all the essential digital tasks needed at work. Add language barriers (about 1.5% can’t speak English well; 0.3% not at all) and the exclusion of pregnant and breastfeeding women from UK trials (just 1.1% and 0.6% of trials include them), and it’s clear: designing for “everyone” usually means designing for someone.

So we’re asking a bigger, better question: what would it take for FemTech solutions to be truly inclusive in practice? This session brings founders, operators…