2022 • Harper’s Bazaar
IN DER BIKINI-ZONE

2022 • Harper’s Bazaar
IN DER BIKINI-ZONE
Article on the Gender Health Gap – Bikini Medicine


Also referred to as the “Bikini Syndrome,” this phenomenon describes the significant gender gap in medical research, where studies on women focus predominantly on the breasts and reproductive organs.


As a result, the rest of the female body is largely overlooked and often interpreted merely as an appendage of the male body.