A woman’s issue

When women are empowered to attain better health and financial wellbeing for themselves, entire families and communities are better for it.

Rural women are deserving of excellent health care and opportunities to improve both their health and financial literacy. The lived experience is reflected in the data that repeatedly shows that this is not the reality.

People living in rural areas suffer worse health outcomes, and particularly so. Not to mention Indigenous women, women who have immigrated and settled in rural areas, or those who identify as part of the LGBITQ community.

This is not new news. And is will shock no one who lives in a rural or remote area, or works with people from these areas.

But touting this data and slapping the term ‘resilient’ is not good enough.

Women in rural areas are community minded and innovative. And with the boom of digital strategies that suddenly became easily accessible throughout the Covid period, the tyranny of distance has become minimised as a limiting factor in achieving creative and meaningful solutions

Innovation is at the heart of rural women’s wellbeing. It’s time it is invested in.