The Girl Who Cried Pain: A Bias against Women in the Treatment of Pain https://philpapers.org/rec/HOFTGW-3

Sex bias in pain management decisions https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401331121

Gender Bias and Diagnostic Delays in Young Women: A Narrative Review https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12829432/

There is a huge body of research that shows systematic downplaying, ignoring and rating women's health and pain concerns much lower than they are.

I can believe this. I know a lot of rural healthcare workers. The older farmer man type will not come in unless they're basically dying. They're taken seriously pretty much immediately in a way that would probably appear as sexist.

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