Summary
In the 1983 film Yentl, Barbra Streisand plays a young Jewish woman in Poland who pretends to be a man in order to receive an education. The film’s premise has made its way into medical lore as “Yentl syndrome,” which describes the phenomenon whereby women are misdiagnosed and poorly treated unless their symptoms or diseases conform to that of men. Sometimes, Yentl syndrome can prove fatal.
The science of medicine is based on male bodies, but researchers are beginning to realise how vastly the symptoms of disease differ between the sexes. Caroline Criado Perez explores why women are continually being let down by the medical establishment.
Yentl syndrome: A deadly data bias against women (21 June 2019)
https://longreads.com/2019/06/21/yentl-syndrome-a-deadly-data-bias-against-women/
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