Isn’t it time to stand up for each other and remove gender inequality from the physician experience?
For years, physicians have assumed they can treat both genders the same way. But it's costing women their lives.
Women let down by conventional medicine are turning to holistic treatments – but are they safe?
In a months-long investigation, NBC News spoke with nearly a dozen women and experts who described widespread misconduct in hospitals and health care.
Gender bias in medicine has been around for a while...it is up to women like us, to bring awareness and light to this important issue of medical misogyny.
I’d love to insist sexism is localised to Tokyo medical school. But women are devalued in medicine across the west
Women report that their decisions to "go flat" after a mastectomy are often ignored by doctors.
By Kathryn Redinger, MD, FACEP
"This is infuriating and scary."
Late-night research, isolation and a strict, male-dominated hierarchy are the perfect conditions for sexual harassment. With colleges struggling to enforce conduct codes, what can be done?
If you have ever been told you cannot get a prescription refill on your birth control pills until you come into the doctor’s office for a Pap test; if your experience in the labor and delivery room…
With a little help from Wanda Sykes and Larry David.
Unfortunately, modern medicine firmly believes that all medical problems either affect everyone in exactly the same way or don't affect one gender at all.
While men have been able to do pretty much whatever they want since the beginning of time, women have long been expected to conform to stringent, restrictive roles within the domestic sphere. Of course, there have also always been intrepid…
Ingrained sexism means that doctors often dismiss women as hypochondriacs.
A while back, when my post about South African Public Hospitals was popular, someone recommended I write about women in healthcare. I chose not to because at the time I just didn’t feel reall…
With Miranda Bailey's heart attack, sexism in medicine gets much-deserved mainstream treatment.
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As Madeleine Albright often said, "There's a special place in hell for women who don't support other women." She's right. Let's make that "special place" much smaller for all of us.
These authors cover intersectional issues, present solutions, and share their experiences, of sexism in healthcare, research, and the ER.
Female doctors complain of sexism and crude behaviour as the GMC warns of a culture of bullying and rudeness.
Unfortunately, modern medicine firmly believes that all medical problems either affect everyone in exactly the same way or don't affect one gender at all.
“We literally know less about every aspect of female biology compared to male biology.”
Despite the fact that women now constitute 50 percent or more of medical school admissions, they still hold a minority of leadership positions.
I was the boss. I was in charge. I was the doctor!
There are a lot of vintage advertisements floating around the Internet that will make you cringe. The unearthed offenders tend to scream with the rampant sexism and racism of bygone eras — some are enough to make AXE commercials seem downright…
Leading female surgeon Jyoti Shah reveals daily sexism of women being called nurses and asked to make the tea
Britain’s Contagious Diseases Act of 1864 may have had good intentions. But the law exposed a society of high-handed moral judgements and entrenched sexism.
A while back, when my post about South African Public Hospitals was popular, someone recommended I write about women in healthcare. I chose not to because at the time I just didn’t feel reall…
It is imperative that every individual remains cognizant of the sexism still present in medicine.
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Science’s failure to understand how women’s bodies react to exercise differently to men’s poses serious health risks, writes author of best seller Invisible Women, Caroline Criado -Perez
In the testosterone-charged field of medicine, sexism and double standards can curb women doctors’ career progression. It’s time to reconsider their contribution to the profession
Nobel prizewinning Jewish scientist who carried out her cell growth research while hiding from the fascists during the second world war
