Marina Gerner’s book is out now.

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THE VAGINA BUSINESS: THE INNOVATIVE BREAKTHROUGHS THAT COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING IN WOMEN’S HEALTH

 

A deeply researched journalistic investigation, it shines a spotlight on the fantastic potential of femtech (female technology) to transform women’s lives.

 

The book is published by Sourcebooks in the US and Canada, Icon Books in the UK and Redline in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.

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The Vagina Business has won the Porchlight Business Book for Creativty & Innovation Award, the Mindvalley Book Club Award and a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. It has been recommended as a Book of the Month by the Financial Times and The Independent.

 

Kirkus Reviews has praised the book as "energetic, thoroughly engaging reading" and emphasised its potential to improve women's health outcomes worldwide.

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As a journalist, Marina has written about books and arts, as well as finance and tech for over a decade. Her range of expertise has led to Marina being called "a Renaissance woman of the modern age."

 

​She has won several journalism awards and written for The Economist, Jewish Chronicle, Guardian, Financial Times, Wired, the Times Literary Supplement, The Times, and the Wall Street Journal. She has been a contributing editor at The Sunday Times Raconteur, the i newspaper and MoneyWeek. Before that she was a Staff Writer at Money Observer, where she wrote a column called “Marina’s Imaginary Millions.”​

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As an academic, she is an Adjunct Professor of Commerce & Culture at the NYU Stern School of Business (on their London campus) and she has a PhD from the London School of Economics, which was funded by merit-based scholarships.​

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Her media appearances include TV shows and radio programmes at France 24, PBS, the BBC World Service and podcast interviews with The Financial Feminist, Trail Blazers and many others.

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She has spoken at universities including NYU, Columbia University, and Rice University, and at professional networks like the National Association of Women Business Owners, AthenaDAO, Ladies Who Crunch, Novi Awards, MentorMe NGO, Leaders in Health.

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She is a frequent speaker and panel chair at femtech conferences like Women's Health Week, as well as bigger tech festivals like SXSW, VivaTech, Mindvalley and The Fix.

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Born in Kyiv during the Soviet Union, Marina was a toddler, when her brave single mother moved them to the West as political refugees.

 

She grew up in Frankfurt, has briefly lived in New York and has mainly lived in London, where she can be found drinking cappuccinos with friends and taking her baby to bars.