Inside Medicine’s Gender Problem: When Women’s Pain Isn’t Taken Seriously
From teenage period pain to IVF heartbreak, one woman exposes the quiet cruelty of medical misogyny - and the fight for care that actually listens.
A woman's journey with fertility and loss began a decade ago, but the signs were there long before. At 15, she was doubled over in pain from her period, trying to get a medical certificate from her GP to exempt her from an exam.
Instead of concern, I was met with mockery. My “tummy troubles” were a joke, a comical reason to skip a cooking exam.
Mortified, in a fog of pain and nausea, she left with a prescription for the pill – a Band-Aid solution that she now suspects masked the true issue for years.
This moment marked the first in a long line of gendered dismissals, a chain reaction of medical misogyny: a system where women’s pain is normalised, their instincts doubted, and their bodies treated as problems to be solved rather than people to be cared for.
Author's summary: Medical misogyny neglects women's pain.
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