provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US.Gender disparities are not a phenomenon unique to the pandemic. Long before COVID-19, women than men, had and were at increased risk of . But now, the pandemic has made them, and their children, .but experience generally worse health, including higher risk for many chronic diseases, a phenomenon often referred to as the . Many see this as due to biological differences between women and men. Female reproductive hormones affect many tissues in the body; pregnancy and childbirth come with additional risks to health.But a suggests...…provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US.Gender disparities are not a phenomenon unique to the pandemic. Long before COVID-19, women than men, had and were at increased risk of . But now, the pandemic has made them, and their children, .but experience generally worse health, including higher risk for many chronic diseases, a phenomenon often referred to as the . Many see this as due to biological differences between women and men. Female reproductive hormones affect many tissues in the body; pregnancy and childbirth come with additional risks to health.But a suggests...WW…