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Ok, let's get this started! I'm trying to raise awareness of issues that only affect female bodies. I'll bring links to more info on each issue. I will start from what are considered big issues that barely anyone seems to care at all. Let's do it!
Sex-selective abortions: girls are being aborted in huge numbers throughout the world: https://www.feministcurrent.com/2018/12/13/sex-selective-abortion-rise-never-dangerous-time-neglect-sex-statistics/
In India, an area covering 132 villages has seen no girls being born in the last three months: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/no-girls-born-india-villages-female-foeticide-sex-selective-abortions-a9015541.html
China's one child policy led the country to several damaging outcomes like sex-selective abortions of female fetuses and infanticide of girls. This policy has been terminated but the country is struggling to raise the numbers of births: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/02/china-population-control-two-child-policy
Uk's policies put in place to avoid sex-selective abortions after parents find out they were having a girl: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/selective-abortions-gender-tests-girls-uk-labour-a8540851.html
More on sex-selective abortions throughout the world: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2199874-sex-selective-abortions-may-have-stopped-the-birth-of-23-million-girls/
In some places, when and if a female baby is born, they could still be killed (sex-selective infanticide/female infanticide): http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/abortion/medical/infanticide_1.shtml
Female infanticide in China:
Girls who grow up past 3 yrs could suffer, in many places (including the UK) female genital mutilation (FGM): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/parenting/forgave-mother-fgm-want-stop-practice/
After that, as young as 8, girls could be sold as brides. This harmful practice happens all over the world and even in many developed countries like the USA: https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/the-worth-of-a-girl-child-marriage-around-the-world/5026951.html
More on child marriage: https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/where-does-it-happen/
As soon as puberty hits and girls have their menarche, girls might be expelled from their homes during their periods or being kept in period huts: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/jan/14/destroy-period-huts-or-forget-state-support-nepal-moves-to-end-practice-chhaupadi
Teen pregnancy is another huge global issue not properly addressed: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/adolescent-pregnancy
Females who survive to adulthood safe from these practices can come across Period Stigma: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/28/stigma-periods-boys-young-women-bullying-menstruation
Period stigma can also affect females in all classes and in different ways: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/28/stigma-periods-boys-young-women-bullying-menstruation
Periods are an issue to many female children or teens, who are missing school for not affording menstrual pads: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/international-womens-day-period-girls-missed-school-uk-sanitary-products-menstruation-a8244396.html
Breast ironing/flattening, girls have their breasts flattened with heated rocks to look like boys for longer and avoid rape: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/breast-ironing-cameroon-harmful-practice-girls/
Adult females should be able to decide if they want to have children at all or when they want children. But no contraceptive is 100% effective; and too many fertile females are sexually abused, resulting in unplanned pregnancies.
Very few countries give proper abortions rights to females. New Zealand is a developed country where the issue is still being debated: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49234944
Ireland, another developed country, has approved abortions rights in 2019. Most countries with economical struggles do not allow abortions: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/welfare/2019/05/abortion-now-legal-ireland-doesn-t-mean-it-s-accessible
El Salvador case: country with one of the worst abortion laws in the world: http://theconversation.com/the-unspeakable-cruelty-of-el-salvadors-abortion-laws-94004
Females who manage to survive all this and are in a long term relationship and will start a family may be at risk of a miscarriage that could threaten their lives: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/hidden-dangers-miscarriages-scar-would-be-moms-n212646
Sometimes, even something simple like seeing a gynecologist could be a nightmare - things that shouldn't happen: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/health/gynecology-exams-nassar-tyndall.html
Sometimes, females are admitted to hospital for a surgery under general anesthesia, or are unconscious after a physical trauma, and medical students are asked to perform vaginal exams on them: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43j59n/medical-students-allowed-to-do-pelvic-exams-on-unconscious-patients-without-consent
After a sexual abuse by males, women face many challenges, like having a cervical screening:
Surviving relatively well all this, females who get pregnant and wish to take it to term may experience Obstetric Violence during pregnancy or labour: https://rewire.news/article/2019/01/23/it-felt-like-i-had-been-violated-how-obstetric-violence-can-traumatize-patients/
Brazilian indigenous women are coerced to have unnecessary c-sections, and end up struggling with health issues from this procedure, far away from the nearest health care provider. Lack of c-sections when is needed, however, kill thousands of females and babies every year
More on overuse or lack of c-sections: https://truthout.org/articles/c-sections-are-both-overused-and-not-available-when-needed-study-shows/
I forgot to acknowledge a type of female erasure: sex-selective IVF procedures for gay couples. https://www.bionews.org.uk/page_144104
Females who can choose to have a baby face discrimination: https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/workplace-maternity-discrimination-10-common-scenarios-tribunals/
Females who have a live baby may endure breastfeeding stigma: http://nbc25news.com/news/local/big-latch-on-aims-to-reduce-stigma-of-breastfeeding
