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Medical Misogyny

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Accounts from women who responded to the federal government’s End Gender Bias survey.

‘I would need to meet your mother’: Doctors refuse women’s requests for sterilisation

The detailed findings of a landmark Australian survey into gender bias in healthcare has delivered more sobering news about women’s experiences with the medical system.

  • Aisha Dow

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Medical misogyny has a long history.

From wandering wombs to the missing clitoris: How medical misogyny works

From Ancient Greece right through to modern medicine in Australia today, the treatment of women in science started badly and remains a serious problem.

  • Kate Aubusson and Emily Kaine
Medical Misogyny.

Medical misogyny

This is an investigative series into medical misogyny. We will explore how medical misogyny is happening in Australia, and share the best ideas to address it.

More than a thousand women have shared their disturbing encounters with the medical system as part of an investigation into medical misogyny.

‘Almost killed me’: 1000 women dismissed, left in pain and misdiagnosed

More than a thousand women have shared their disturbing encounters with the medical system as part of an investigation into medical misogyny.

  • Carrie Fellner and Emily Kaine
Queenie Main.

Queenie’s period pain gets so excruciating her legs shake – but her GP dismissed it as normal

Parents of teenagers who experience severe period symptoms, including debilitating pain, are struggling to get the right help.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Women’s health is a tricky issue.

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

What is medical misogyny? How do we know it exists? Our reporters reveal the background to their investigative series for the Morning Edition podcast.

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Women’s health is a tricky issue.

Doctors don’t hate women, but we can be idiots when it comes to their health

Just don’t call it medical misogyny. I’m not a misogynist. But it’s fair to say that medicine doesn’t understand women as well as it should.

  • Nicholas Wilcken
Kirsty Costa was 31 and had just lost a pregnancy when she was told she had gone into early menopause, a condition with which more young women are being diagnosed.

At 31, Kirsty had just been pregnant – but she suddenly faced a ‘brutal’ reality

The months-long “medical limbo” Kirsty Costa fell into while trying to get a diagnosis has now helped to inform new guidelines for doctors.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Keira Rumble.

‘I thought I was insane’: Doctors kept ignoring Keira’s pain. It almost killed her

Keira Rumble was a victim of a poorly researched health phenomenon known as medical misogyny. Its consequences can be fatal.

  • Kate Aubusson and Wendy Tuohy
Many studies have demonstrated women are more sensitive to pain.

‘We offer anaesthetic but only men need it’: The persistent myth about pain

Do women or men have a higher threshold for pain? It’s a question that raises a number of problems with Australia’s medical system.

  • Wendy Tuohy

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