On Monday, President Joe Biden signed an government order that may create a $12 billion fund to enhance our understanding of — and ideally remedies for — girls’s well being. It’s a welcome, if egregiously belated funding by the US authorities. And though it feels like a giant quantity, there’s lots of catching as much as do.

For instance, one analysis discovered that situations that overwhelmingly have an effect on girls, like migraines, complications, endometriosis, anxiousness issues and persistent fatigue syndrome, are severely underfunded in comparison with situations that predominantly have an effect on males. (Anyone following the long Covid story is aware of that situation might simply be added to this record.)