Maria Shriver On Self-Advocacy & The Gender Bias In Medical Research

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Maria Shriver On Self-Advocacy & The Gender Bias In Medical Research

— NBC/NBCUniversal/Getty ImagesLast month, Maria Shriver stood in the Oval Office and accepted a pen from President Biden, which he’d just used to sign an executive order to invest in women’s health research. It was a goosebumps-inducing moment, in part because it closely echoed a similar occasion from 1963, when Shriver’s mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, was handed a pen by her brother, President John F. Kennedy, who’d just signed a bill support…