This short video breaks down the policies put in place over the past 30 years that has led to serious downstream effects for women being able to access surgical care for Gynecologic disease. Female bodies are literally worth less money to the modern healthcare/insurance reimbursement system than male bodies are; and changing this requires multiple levels of policy change through Health and Human Services, the American Medical Association, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services, and even internal politics of major organizations representing Ob/Gyn as a specialty. The system is rigged to have women and their doctors be at the bottom of the financial totem pole when our training years, skill set, acuity, complexity, and demand for services are equal or surpass other surgical fields.