Women are the primary decision-makers in several areas, including health care (where they make up to 70% of all family decisions) and finances (where they make up to 80% of all household decisions).
Even more so in the post-Roe era, working women are increasingly looking on their employers to provide adequate health insurance for them and their families. Businesses may now provide their staff with access to Maven Clinic’s broad online network of fertility, pregnancy, adoption, parenting, and paediatrics services thanks to the company’s partnership with the virtual women’s and family clinic.
At the CNBC Work Summit on Wednesday, Kate Ryder, CEO and founder of Maven Clinic, told CNBC reporter Leslie Picker, “With our platform, patients have access to all these different types of care providers – adoption coach, surrogacy coach, OBGYN, midwife, doula – they can get quick support within 10, 20 minutes as well as talk to people they trust who share their lived experiences.” With the ever-evolving healthcare system, “our care advocates are helping them explore the benefits or legislation and asking whether their health plans have done anything to add them.”
When it comes to health care, Ryder wants Maven to focus on women and address any issues they have. It’s the biggest online resource for family-oriented organisations targeting women.
It has long been the case, as Ryder points out, that “women’s health and family health” are neglected.
With over $200 million in funding and a $1 billion valuation as of August 2021, Maven Clinic is the first health firm started by a woman to reach this benchmark. It was founded by Dr. Michelle Ryder in 2014. More than 15 million members in more than 175 countries have benefited from its services, and more than 30 provider specialisations are supported in 30 provider languages on the platform. On the list of the 50 Companies That Will Disrupt Your Industry in 2022, Maven Clinic landed at No. 19.
Since the Supreme Court’s June decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the company has seen a 67% spike in opportunities from companies wishing to provide travel benefits and other health-care support for pregnant women.
After SB-8 in Texas in 2021, which restricted practically all abortions and health care pertaining to abortions after six weeks, Ryder said Maven Clinic expected Roe v. Wade would be overturned.
Ryder explained that his company was successful because “we’re in the market, because we had a platform that we were able to utilise,” allowing them to quickly bring their items to market.
She believes that Maven Clinic’s virtual platform and vocal advocacy for health equity have contributed to the company’s broadening customer base over the past two years, even while a pandemic and tight labour market have impacted traditional markets.
More and more businesses are include fertility benefits as part of their diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in response to the Great Resignation. As of the year 2020, 42% of major businesses and 27% of small employers in the United States provide in vitro fertilisation (IVF) services, while 19% of large employers and 11% of small employers provide egg freezing.
According to Ryder’s research, 80% of potential employees assess an organization’s DEI initiatives before joining the team, and 40% of workers are likely to move elsewhere for employment if they believe their current company does not place enough value on reproductive rights.
The main medical organisations, according to Ryder, “have come out… saying this is a health access issue, a health-care issue.” “It’s also the moral thing to do,” she continued, “to make sure your families, at a time when they’re particularly vulnerable, are getting all the appropriate access and assistance.”
Communities of lower socioeconomic level and people of race have been hit hardest by the Covid-19 pandemic, making it harder for them to access medical treatment.
Some of the highest turnover rates in recent memory have been recorded for female employees and executives as they flee the pandemic’s aftermath. There has been a reversal of progress over the past several decades, with the present number of women in the workforce being on par with that in the 1980s.
People are the key to success for every company looking to increase profits, according to Ryder. “It’s about health equity and how, for example, if you have a large virtual care platform, it is simpler to actually really handle this, because you have a chance to have a provider workforce,” says the author.