Note: PowerPoint presentation software was used to create the graphs for this visual poem.
Data sources include:
Center for Health Statistics, CDC, https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/womens-health.htm; https://www.cdc.gov/hearher/pregnancy-related-deaths/index.html
Common Wealth Fund, https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2022/us-maternal-mortality-crisis-continues-worsen-international-comparison
“The World’s Women 2020 Trends and Statistics,” United Nations, https://www.un.org/en/desa/world’s-women-2020
International Labor Organization, https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_008091/lang–en/index.htm
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Jane Muschenetz arrived in the US as a child refugee from Soviet Ukraine. MIT graduate and former Bain Management Consultant, Jane is a 2023 City of Encinitas Artist and winner of The Good Life Review 2022 Poetry Prize. Her debut poetry collection, All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents (Kelsay, 2023), was shortlisted for the Jacar Press Chapbook Prize.