Think adverse environmental effects affect people equally? Ask these women

Women, children, and racialized people's health are particularly vulnerable to adverse environmental effects for biological and socioeconomic reasons. We can use breast cancer as an example of how these differential impacts play out. 
Research has suggested that using hand sanitizer with dermal-penetration-enhancing chemicals while handling thermal receipt paper coated with BPA dramatically increases the chemical’s presence in the body, especially in women.
Although the passage of time this past year has sometimes felt like a frozen clock, the conditions of the coronavirus pandemic have provided us with a timely history lesson and an opportunity to shape the future.  

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