The Woman Corp: Health Struggles

For Woman’s History month, The Woman Corp series highlights some very influential women and circumstances that have impacted how women function in business or the workplace.

But, Women’s health has been one of the biggest debates of how it affects a women’s productivity, income retention and ability consistently to contribute towards thorough entrepreneurship.

The Loss

Overall health related losses (men & women) contribute to $575 billion dollars in lost revenue per year. Ironically there is no solid data on financial losses due to women’s health issues, in total. At the most, geriatric health data for things like menopause is mentioned (specified for White women), at $22.6 billion dollars year in sick day losses. Yet, $22 billion is still a significant loss of productivity regardless of race.

Read – https://nationalpartnership.org/travesty-27-million-workers-lack-paid-sick-days/

Read – https://news.ibiweb.org/poor-health-costs-us-employers-575-billion

The Limping Dollar

The limited data for the loss of revenue due to women’s health problems seems strange. Systemic health issues show up in the American expense whether a woman is at work or not. For women who do work, businesses end up seeing a surge of indirect costs from higher turnover, sporadic recruitment, and deficient training when women’s health issues aren’t streamlined. These setbacks result in businesses to push women employees to a breaking point, eventually leading to cut hours or causes them to flat out quit.

The Numbers Can’t Exist

Recent employer-focused reports describe these as “hidden costs” that accumulate quietly over years. But, the weird dismissive narrative and lack of data feels on purpose. It almost seems like a argument to build the case that, maybe women “shouldn’t work at all.” To fairly address the health setbacks for working women, it shouldn’t push the agenda that chronic illness equate defunct work-equity. It’s actually a sign that that society’s modern take of “working” isn’t sustainable for a woman’s natural practice. The attitude of weaponizing stifled potential could truly be the culprit in deteriorating health and high professional burnout.

Cultural Blame Game

The notion of illnesses like Autoimmune disease, fibroids, endometriosis and PCOS, has been diagnosed by shea butter Twitter, church Aunties, Mama Africa’s, and red pill doctors with a series of unrelated causes. From blaming women for “holding on to grudges”, needing to drink more garlic water, rejecting perms, or women needing to cutting back on high-sexual activity. What’s wild, for all the accusations, Black women seem to catch the most strays. And its cringe hearing women state shame for having these issues. Let’s stop the BS, it’s not shame that should be focused but sabotage of a women’s natural growth, and her body rejecting the unnatural restriction.

Enterprise Was A Blessing, Not A Right

The reality, women-based illnesses have been the opposite of what people “think” is the cause. Women, themselves embody the actual link from the past to present business models. From basket weaving, fabric development, agriculture, culinary leadership, and medicine, many ancient communities relied on women to contribute these things for over a millennia.

Before the world of slavery and religious extremism became a woman’s only identity, her contributions were on built on joy and ASMR. And there is even proof of women in business going back as far as Bible, Mesopotamia, and even post slavery being the game changer in cultural growth. But as the world of entitlement distortion came, social order made “prostitution” into an inverted twisted enterprise to feed the incapable and ignorant.

Following social requirements converted ancient capabilities into staring at a man, to watch him think about thinking to being great. When you hear “She’s a runner, you’re a stump,” sorta thing, in One Battle After Another, that phase wholly describes the mental and physical stress of a women’s stifled potential in anything she knows she could improve.

Religion of Limitations

Before Protestant beliefs became the baseline for all Western beliefs, women’s role in enterprise was far more potent. Despite the controlled narrative of “feminism” having people believe that the suffragette movement kicked off “rights” narratives, in the Black community women’s roles were gender-less at a time White women couldn’t move a horse & carriage without a hard slap. Physical abuse would a motivator to scare a lot women to mediocrity and that peace resulted in social regression.

From Abraham to Jim Crow, it was all hands on deck, and the role of men were to venture out into dangerous spaces, while women development community infrastructures, streamlined from men’s presented resources. That application was then organized by women towards elders and youth, all within a spiritual foundation.

Unfortunately, as Black culture adopted twisted COGIC ideology, the world of women’s potential deteriorated. That gender restriction of generational knowledge became toxic to the functional needs of women’s place within modern life. She had to not mourn her potential but, the death of all the progress her lineage had already addressed. The religious ideology built off the past would ignore the same cultures who created their beliefs. Religion would skip over cultural notes that allowed women to do more, and simply state it as evil to even try. The Book of Proverbs & Fatima are littered with women’s business ideology that some how misses the script in religious culture, placing women on an unnatural path in personal growth.

When The Shame of Pain Started

When a women coming from a generation of male business owners is suddenly forced to work in the chaos of mismanagement, she’s probably getting a fibroid when she’s bullied to maintain a broken system. Work ignorance and pay subjugation is an energetic poison.

A women from a regal line of leadership, gains autoimmune illness, when she’s perpetually invisible, and forced to condone the lack of compensation. Even a woman with A&M lineage of engineering, has to end the day with inflammation all because her misinterpreted biblical role, lets her husband confuse the HDMI wires, for his PS6 install because their pastor said it’s Anti-God to show “Gnostic” tendencies. The pain doesn’t comes from being less feminine, it comes from misaligned energy and robbed potential. If women were created to “help,” its actually unnatural to not let them.

How The Pain Stifles

For women experiencing constant pain, the expectation of sexiness or social activism is destructive to mental stability. To please a movement that only contributes to burn out and career sabotage, forces women to chose peace or prosperity. If she needs money, she has to accept she will never have peace. And if she chooses peace, she’s gotta accept, ramen noodles and cheap dinners as her new normal.

For women with symptoms like PCOS and chronic pain, there isn’t a lot of social activity without sacrificing energy needed to be productive in business. The energy stored to succeed isn’t unnatural but the methods of how women have been trained to function isn’t sustainable once the pain is apart of her life. Be heard, but not be an ass. Work hard, but the body don’t process toxic stress like men. Be socially active but, still end up being ignored. These are factors that don’t include improving but maintaining low frequency efforts. If dimissiveness was the basket of loaded fries, the illness is the big backery of it all.

And to be fair, women collectively are running in place in many professions. The overheating with loss potential has been how most of the America workforce functions. It’s also exhausting to please those who don’t come from generational greatness and can’t understand moving forward takes different approaches to stagnation. If the inability to return to where women left off, before religion and social activism dominated the goal, this chaos will keep producing more and more chronic conditions. At the end of the day, dysfunction has to first be corrected to determine the root cause, and then identify if its additionally chemicals and diet that improves the disposition.

It Can’t All Be Chemicals

If it was perms why do small batches of White women and large amounts of Asian women have fibroids? If it was being sexually active or STDs, why do non sexually active women have endometriosis? If PCOS is diet, why do slim vegans have it? The common denominator of women with chronic illness seems to also have chronic restrictions. So even if a women corrects the things society blames her for participating, the one thing she need to control is a toxic work environment and ideology. And if that can’t be corrected, its time to evaluate if the job itself is meant for the body.

It’s also not the need to give women more work but, to how to adequately utilize talents they contribute in a more reasonable method their bodies can provide. It’s interesting that in the same breath of Trans in sports, biological women are still required to be pushed to male physical standards without one protest about the irony.

No Energy for Bullshit

The systematic inability to peacefully thrive in spaces is the only solution for a chronic condition. If the dna has expected a bloodline to succeed after so long, from having 50-11 degrees or sitting around all day, these markers simply might be a controllable correction. The question has to be, who made these standards to push a women’s body to the point of illness? Where in any scripture is being a “sluggard” Godly? If women began looking at their true potential and revising their family skills, you’d probably see a reduction stress. You’d see an evolution of work place environments, all proving, women’s real workplace potential could be a hidden gem, in America’s next phase of economics. Maybe not a coddling a toxic workspace out of survival and the fear of revenue loss, is the first antidote. Then it can be easier to target environmental factors like pollution.

In addition to financial loss of loss business days, the mental health and exhaustion of social pressure required for business management and corporate leadership, might not be needed if the quality of output succeeds how things women function in the workplace. At the end of the day, only a woman can admit she has a limit. And as Black women face a professional reset in 2026, women’s health will ultimately determine if going the extra mile is worth it, over self preservation.