We identified five themes: rigidity of service design, promoting empowerment, trust and rapport, responding to social complexities, distress at late diagnosis, and contending with discrimination and racism.
Some women also have to contend with pregnancy discrimination, and those who don't may still worry about it, which is why too many women conceal their pregnancies for as long as possible.
Because once they get a decent job, they still have to contend with structural workplace discrimination, overtly sexist behaviour and a weight of social expectations.
Then, you get phrases like "reverse discrimination" being used, but how can reverse discrimination occur if there was no discrimination to contend with in the first place?
LGBTI elders have a "lifetime of discrimination" to contend with, Meecham explains.
He led the opposition to the Lily Ledbetter Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act, legislation designed to end the systematic wage discrimination that makes it hard for women -- and especially hard for women of color, who have to contend with racial as well as sex-based discrimination -- to build up wealth or save for their children's education or their own retirement.
What a shame that aspiring young women who already face ample challenges of discrimination, stereotyping and glass ceilings still have to contend with these Neanderthal views.
"The problem with this unequal approach was heightened earlier this year when the LGBT community had to contend with serious efforts in many states-including Kansas, Idaho, South Dakota and Arizona-to pass legislation that would allow anti-LGBT discrimination based on the religious beliefs of business owners.
There were greater things to contend with.
"You have to contend with it.
