Sex differences explain some of the gaping health inequalities between men and women—but a lot of the time, it’s sexism.
In many areas of health, women receive worse care, and suffer worse outcomes, than men. Women experience higher rates of adverse drug reactions. Across hundreds of diseases, they are diagnosed later than men. Women are more likely to suffer from common mental health conditions. In moments of acute pain, women are less likely to be given painkillers. One small positive is that this gender health gap is finally getting the attention it deserves.
But because we collect data along certain lines and not others, then guidelines get written along certain lines and not others. To give another example, sometimes women’s pain is not fully appreciated when they come forward. Women are statistically more likely to go to a doctor when in pain compared to a man. But then common myths and assumptions start to emerge: “It’s not that serious.” “She’s being hysterical.” So there are lots of things to pick apart here.
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