8 Cool Female Health Organisations To Work For

Femtech, female health, women’s wellbeing - whatever you want to call it, there have been a whole host of organisations popping up in the last 5-10 years giving women’s health topics the attention they've been missing.

Whether that be by ensuring more scientific research and data exists to improve the lives of women with painful (yet surprisingly common conditions) like endometriosis, helping trafficking survivors to stay safe, breaking taboos with sustainable and sassy period products, or challenging stigmas about sexual wellness, there are so many lenses to view female health through, and these organisations are leading the charge in a strongly-monopolized, low innovation industry. 

And that’s not all - these organisations are also behind the scenes making an impact with their employee and people policies, too. By supporting women who survived sexual trafficking, to implementing flexible working schedules, the teams working at these companies have a mix of cool benefits to enjoy.

Elvie

Elvie is a health and lifestyle brand developing smarter technology for women. Their first product is the Elvie Trainer, is an award-winning Kegel trainer that helps women strengthen the pelvic floor via fun, five-minute workouts, which was followed by the Elvie Pump, the smallest, quietest and smartest, and only Piezo-Powered wearable breast pump. They’ve won countless awards, including being included in the UK's 'Top 33 Startups' by TechCityUK, named one of the '15 Startups To Watch' by The Sunday Times.

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DAME

Eco-friendly and non-toxic period products don’t come much more stylish than DAME. B-Corp certified and innovative, DAME is doing great things to improve sustainability, accessibility and acceptability of periods. From their reusable pads, to period pants, to school resources, their portfolio of innovative products never ends. The company also made it into our Escape 100 list, the top purpose-led organisations to work for each year (which has a pretty extensive scoring process for qualifying organisations!). 

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Ella’s

This London-based organisation works with women who have survived trafficking and sexual exploitation. Their mission? To do everything so that survivors have all they need to recover and build lives that are both safe, and free. In addition to their two safe houses, where women can stay when they are at their most vulnerable, they provide women with the support to recover and move forward, both physically and emotionally. They also provide a long-term community for survivors, overall plugging dangerous gaps in the national health system: The team also speaks widely about trafficking and exploitation issues to raise awareness and challenge injustice. 

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Daye

Leading with scientific research and development, Daye describe themselves as a highly ambitious female health platform. They recognise that the one-size-fits-all healthcare model doesn’t work, and are striving to create innovative new femtech products that fit perfectly into modern life. From CBD tampons, to non-invasive vaginal health screening kits, Daye’s products are sustainable (for example water-soluble tampon wrappers), created by survivors of trafficking and out there when it comes to breaking taboos.

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Here We Flo

Fuelled by plants and fempower, Here We Flo were a new entry into the Escape 100 list this year, bringing their ‘fempire’ to the equation. Their eco-friendly period products are made from only organic and sustainably-sourced ingredients, their operations are certified Carbon Neutral, and 5% of their profits go to marginalised and vulnerable communities where Flo products are sold. And you maaay have noticed their snazzy marketing and messaging that bring some sass and humor to the destigmatisation of periods and bladder leaks. It’s no surprise that their team highly rate working here, mentioning the flat hierarchy, flexibility, autonomy, monthly wellness days and sense of humour.

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Ferly

Featured in Vogue, the BBC, Forbes and Vanity Fair, and with ratings of 4.6/5 on the apple store, this organisation is certainly shaking up the industry. Ferly is a women’s mental health and sexual wellbeing app, focusing on expert-guided audio programmes. The app is based on the biopsychosocial model, which closes the relationship between biology (‘bio’), psychology (‘psycho’) and sociology (‘social’). All content is audio-based, running between 10-20 minutes, being divided between topics that are better suited for public vs. private listening. With a team made up of health professionals, as well as survivors of sexual violence and assault, the app is both science- and people-driven.

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Hanx

Based in London, this sexual wellness and intimate care brand was created by Farah Kabir and Dr Sarah Welsh. They've created a sex-positive, good lookin’, sustainable and gynae-backed sexual wellness brand that has been making waves in the industry. From launching a pioneering same-day-dispatch hormonal contraceptive pill service, including the morning after pill, to sustainable sexual wellness products, this organisation has already built up a community of 65,000 people.

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Callaly

Callaly has created a truly game-changing product - the tampliner. This patented product is a cross between a tampon and a pad, and one of the first real design innovations to tampons in 80 years. The Independent named them as one of the “period‐positive startups revolutionising the multi‐billion pound feminine care industry” - not too shabby! Focusing also on planet-saving materials, this B-Corporation certified company is also a very deserving winner of the Escape 100, our list of the top purpose-led organisations to work for each year.

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Inspired by these taboo-breaking, planet-first, purposeful teams? Don’t forget to set up a job alert if you’re interested in working at one of these companies, which you can do by clicking ‘Create Alert’ at the top of their profile on Escape the City. Otherwise, take a look at our job board for more inspiring opportunities. Happy job searching!