‘It’s all in your head’: How medical gender bias affects Australian women

When journalists from The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age put a call-out to hear from women who had experienced medical misogyny, they were inundated with heart-breaking stories.

More than 500 women contacted us within 48 hours of the series first being published. To date, there have now been more than 1000 responses.

Hundreds of women have come forward.Credit: SMH

Many respondents said they had their serious diagnoses missed. Others said they’d been told that what they were feeling was “all in their head”.

Some said they’d only narrowly survived as a result.

Herald health editor Kate Aubusson and Age senior writer Wendy Tuohy talk about the investigation and the history of gender medical bias for The Morning Edition podcast.