Empowering Voices, Illuminating Truths

Welcome to The Liora Initiative’s Resources & Blog Section. Your go-to hub for truth, evidence and stories that matter in women’s health. This is your space for real research and real talk about the challenges women face and the systemic gaps that too often go unseen. Here, you’ll uncover insights that validate what women have long known about their own bodies. This section will have you leaving you informed, inspired and ready to take action for yourself.

Step in curious, step out empowered! Share, learn and help us ignite change.

Together, we’re turning awareness into action, one insight at a time.

Unveiling the Data:

The numbers tell a story many women already know through experience. Women’s health research has been consistently underfunded, leaving female-specific biology misunderstood, overlooked, or ignored.

This section brings together reputable studies and organizations that clearly show how deeply rooted this neglect is and why it cannot be dismissed as coincidence. When research is missing, diagnoses are delayed. When funding is lacking, treatment options remain limited. The result is generations of women left navigating uncertainty that should never have been that way in the first place.

The data isn’t just information at The Liora Initiative, it’s evidence. Evidence of why systemic change is necessary, why women must be believed and why equitable investment in women’s health is long overdue.

1. Women’s Health Collective Canada – Empowering Women, Strengthening Canada - Summarizes national data showing that only about 6.8 % of total research funding in Canada goes to women’s health research, despite women being approximately 50 % of the population. https://whcc.ca/ 

2. Canadian Institutes of Health Research – National Women’s Health Research Initiative - Government-led Canadian initiative focused on funding and coordinating research in women’s health, including under-researched conditions.                                 https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/53095.html 

3. BC Women’s Health Foundation – Women’s Health Research Funding Overview- Notes that less than 6 % of national health research funding is dedicated to women’s health in Canada and highlights the research divide. https://bcwomensfoundation.org/womens-health-research/ 

4. IWK Foundation / Deloitte report on women’s health research underinvestment in Canada- This analysis finds that women’s health receives only around 7 % of national health research funding despite women making up about half the population - highlighting the systemic research funding gap. https://iwkfoundation.org/sites/default/files/attachments/2025-iwk-foundation-deloitte-the-case-for-advancing-womens-health-in-canada.pdf  

5. National Institutes of Health – Office of Research on Women’s Health - A central hub for women’s health research initiatives and funding priorities within the NIH. https://orwh.od.nih.gov/ 

6. The Guardian: "Concerning lack of female-only medical trials in UK" - Article highlighting how Women remain vastly underrepresented in medical research, with many clinical trials still centering male physiology as the default. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/07/concerning-lack-of-female-only-medical-trials-in-uk-say-health-experts

7. Daily Hive: "Bleak study shows Canada might not be taking women's health seriously" - In this report by Daily Hive, a national survey reveals that over half of Canadian women feel the healthcare system does not meet their needs. The findings highlight widespread experiences of dismissal, delayed diagnoses and systemic gaps in women-centred care  https://dailyhive.com/canada/womens-health-system-canada-failed 

8. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Women & Heart Disease - Comprehensive overview of women’s heart disease statistics, risk factors and symptom differences backed by national data.

https://www.cdc.gov/heart-disease/about/women-and-heart-disease.html 

9. Stories from WomenHeart (U.S.): Real Heart Disease Misdiagnosis Experiences - WomenHeart shares first‑hand accounts (Glenda, Florence, Charity, and others) of women whose heart disease symptoms were dismissed or misdiagnosed - often as anxiety or stress - before a dangerous delay in diagnosis. https://www.womenheart.org/misdiagnosis/

The Liora Learning Hub

Your go-to space to learn about your body, understand conditions, and explore women’s health from a research-informed perspective. From menstrual cycles and menopause to lesser-known conditions, each article breaks down complex topics so you can recognize symptoms, ask informed questions, and advocate for your own care.

New blogs are added regularly - check back often for the latest insights.

We Are the Women of Tomorrow - And We Will Be Taken Seriously

Feb 25, 2026 5:15 p.m.

For centuries, women have been pushed to the margins of medicine, dismissed as “too complicated,” “overly emotional,” or “imagining things.” Our bodies have been treated as mysteries, our pain as a nuisance, our questions as complaints. When we spoke, we were told it was “all in our heads.” When we sought answers, the research simply wasn’t there.

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