A friend of mine passed along an article that highlighted some big ways in which medical treatments have been tested on men, with the assumption that gender wouldn't matter. In fact, it's been found, that women have responded differently. In some cases, this discrepancy has been a matter of life and death.
"What we're telling women is, every time you go to the doctor, ask, 'Has this treatment or drug been tested on women?'"
https://www.marieclaire.com/health-fitness/a26741/doctors-treat-women-like-men/
"Historically, women's health was dubbed "bikini medicine," because medical professionals acted as though the only thing that set women apart were those body parts that could be covered with a bikini.".....(an excerpt from the article)..... is this for real??
The day people (including women) can look at women as individuals, as humans and NOT associate any ill-gotten preconceived bias we can say the healing process has begun.
And they say women are not compartmentalized and biased and mix up issues- when a woman has a problem that cannot be immediately diagnosed, it is invariably dubbed psyche related, making her to be some drama queen, or someone who cannot handle things. And this unkind notion is perpetuated by other women too, which hurts the most. In the name of being fair, women in positions of power and decision making are just as un-understanding as their male counterparts because they are more worried about how they will be judged!
It is a vicious circle.
Thank you for bringing this to my notice. I must bookmark this post!
Thanks for the article @Yvette Francino. It is surprising that women who are half the world's population are excluded from consideration in studies and trials! The article mentions that advancements in medicine move at a slower pace, so many solutions are behind by decades for women. This is appalling, and counter productive, from statistics (remember defining the sample space?), to business sense to plain common sense!