The Girl Who Cried Pain
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This is a fascinating read about this Bias that is against women in the treatment of their pain.
What is it?
It has been found that in general, women report more severe levels of pain, more frequent incidences of pain, and pain of longer duration than men, but are nonetheless treated for pain less aggressively.
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What do I need to know?
While the research is not available for distribution, here are some of the takeaways mentioned in the conclusion.
Research did indicated that differences between men & women exist in the experience of pain, with women experiencing and reporting both more frequent and greater pain.
Yet rather than receiving greater or at least as effective treatment for their pain as men, women are more likely to be less well treated than men for their painful symptoms.
There are many factors that contribute to this undertreatment, but the literature supports the conclusion that there are gender based biases regarding women's pain experiences.
These biases have led health-care providers to discount women's self- reports of pain at least until there is objective evidence for the pain's cause. [1]
References & Studies: -
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=383803
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