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Named one of Cosmopolitan's Most Compelling Fall 2021 Books to Add to Your Reading List Hossain synthesizes a great deal of qualitative and quantitative data in this effective overview of bias in American medicine, particularly women's and maternal healthcare. An especially welcome addition to healthcare policy, women's studies, and race studies collections at public or special libraries. -Library Journal In The Pain Gap, Anushay Hossain paints a startling picture of a nation that imperils women's lives and then tells them they're crazy for believing something might be wrong. Every woman, and every person who cares about women, should read this crucial book. - Jill Filipovic author of The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness and OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind. Anushay Hossain brilliantly tells the essential and shocking story of what is happening to women - their health, safety, rights, and long-term wellbeing - every day in America. This is a must-read. --Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her The Pain Gap is a book that is timely and masterfully written. Anushay Hossain takes us on a journey with women who have experienced the health and wellness gap in America. She has presented us with an amazing work of empathy, honesty, and a roadmap to how we can fix this gap and make healthcare safe for all women, not just white women. --Sophia A. Nelson, Bestselling author of The Woman Code & Black Woman Redefined Written with a heart full of hope, a belly full of rage, and the meticulous mind of a veteran journalist, The Pain Gap is both an unsparing account of our country's murderous indifference toward women of color, and a roadmap out of that hell. It should be mandatory reading for every policymaker and health care professional in the country. -Jaclyn Friedman, editor of Yes Means Yes: Visions of Sexual Power and a World Without Rape and Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World. Named as one of the 21 of the most anticipated books coming out in the second half of 2021 by Fortune Magazine The Pain Gap is an eye opening exploration into the deeply rooted sexism and racism that pervades the American health care system. --Christy Turlington Burns, founder of Every Mother Counts

"Named one of Cosmopolitan's Most Compelling Fall 2021 Books to Add to Your Reading List ""Hossain synthesizes a great deal of qualitative and quantitative data in this effective overview of bias in American medicine, particularly women's and maternal healthcare. An especially welcome addition to healthcare policy, women's studies, and race studies collections at public or special libraries."" -Library Journal ""In The Pain Gap, Anushay Hossain paints a startling picture of a nation that imperils women's lives and then tells them they're crazy for believing something might be wrong. Every woman, and every person who cares about women, should read this crucial book."" - Jill Filipovic author of The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness and OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind. ""Anushay Hossain brilliantly tells the essential and shocking story of what is happening to women - their health, safety, rights, and long-term wellbeing - every day in America. This is a must-read."" --Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her ""The Pain Gap is a book that is timely and masterfully written. Anushay Hossain takes us on a journey with women who have experienced the health and wellness gap in America. She has presented us with an amazing work of empathy, honesty, and a roadmap to how we can fix this gap and make healthcare safe for all women, not just white women."" --Sophia A. Nelson, Bestselling author of The Woman Code & Black Woman Redefined ""Written with a heart full of hope, a belly full of rage, and the meticulous mind of a veteran journalist, The Pain Gap is both an unsparing account of our country's murderous indifference toward women of color, and a roadmap out of that hell. It should be mandatory reading for every policymaker and health care professional in the country."" -Jaclyn Friedman, editor of Yes Means Yes: Visions of Sexual Power and a World Without Rape and Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World. Named as one of the 21 of the most anticipated books coming out in the second half of 2021 by Fortune Magazine ""The Pain Gap is an eye opening exploration into the deeply rooted sexism and racism that pervades the American health care system."" --Christy Turlington Burns, founder of Every Mother Counts"

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Anushay Hossain is a writer and a feminist policy analyst focusing on women’s health legislation. She is a regular on-air guest at CNN, MSNBC, and PBS, and her writing on politics, gender, and race has been published in Forbes, CNN, USA TODAY, The Daily Beast, and Medium. Hossain is also the host of the Spilling Chai podcast. The Pain Gap is her first book.

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