Medical researchers historically excluded women from experiments — partly because they believed hormonal fluctuations in female lab animals would complicate data, partly citing concerns about harming women’s fertility, and partly because of researcher bias.
As a result, the male body has been treated as the biological default. This healthcare gender prejudice has left gaping knowledge gaps around how illness and pain impact women.
Those knowledge gaps have often been filled with sexist narratives: among them, that women’s pain or symptoms are exaggerated, rooted in emotion, or “hysterical”. That term has origins in ancient Egypt in 1900 BC, where it was suggested a spontaneously wandering uterus was the cause of women’s mental illness.
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