Chief Health Officers, Women, Are In Pain

Higher health costs. Women bear greater health insurance costs than men, as calculated by the National Women's Law Center in 2012. This is one of the key rationales underneath the Affordable Care Act: to ensure that women aren't discriminated by health insurance pricing practices that have been common in the industry. TIME magazine put this in the category of a "woman tax," where females have paid more for many consumer goods, including but not limited to deodorant, haircuts and sneakers. Marie Claire magazine covered this in their story, "Why Women Pay More."