Marina Gerner’s debut book is coming out this September.

 

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, if it’s done well.

 

​It’s published by Sourcebooks in the US and Canada (on Sept 17), Icon Books in the UK and Redline in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria (on Sept 12).

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The Vagina Business has already been getting attention with grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and The Society of Authors. While 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, she 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." ​Marina has won several 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.

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Before that she was a Staff Writer at Money Observer, where she wrote a column called “Marina’s Imaginary Millions.”​ 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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She has been a frequent guest on the BBC World Service, Women in Tech, LSE Career Events, and contributor to femtech industry panels and events including the Women of Wearables Femtech conference.

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Marina has been invited to speak about women's health, tech and her book at Columbia University, Rice University, AthenaDAO, the National Association of Women Business Owners, Aphra Book Club, Novi (Forward Ladies), Jewish Book Council, MentorMe NGO, Ladies Who Crunch and Mindvalley among other places.

 

She has spoken on many podcasts including The Financial Feminist, Standard Issue, Uneven Distribution, Stressed but Well Dressed, Trail Blazers and she has been invited to speak at SXSW.

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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.