Summary
This opinion piece in the New Scientist looks at the persistence of the gender pain gap and highlights research that demonstrates its persistence in healthcare systems. An increasing number of studies have shown how bias against women’s expressions of pain negatively affect diagnosis and treatment of their health conditions; misinterpretations of female pain as anxiety contribute to women being around 50% more likely to be misdiagnosed after a heart attack. It also looks at how women who are Black, Asian or from ethnic minority backgrounds experience more underestimation of their pain by healthcare professionals than white women. The author argues that gendered myths about pain have had a powerful impact on centuries of scientific and biomedical advances.
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