Did you know that in 1977 the FDA passed a policy which exuded the participation of women from studies? Or that as recently as 2019 women only made up about 40% of the participants in clinical trials of diseases which affect mostly women? These statistics are significant examples of how woman have consistently been misrepresented and mistreated in healthcare, and as a result of this women have endured avoidable suffering and had their voices silenced.

Women consistently have been misdiagnosed, dismissed, or ignored when seeking medical care. Studies show that women's pain is taken less seriously than men's, leading to delayed diagnoses, inadequate treatment, and causing preventable suffering. Conditions such as endometriosis, autoimmune diseases, and heart attacks often have gone undiagnosed for extended periods of time, simply because doctors are not trained to recognize gender bias in their evaluations.

My call to action is to make it mandatory that doctors and other medical professionals are properly, and more throughly, educated on womens health. This would be achieved by creating more studies which center around women to gather more information about how to best cater healthcare to their needs. Through this learning it would also help to gain a deeper understanding of the differences between men and women which will help medical professionals to unlearn these biases against women which manifest into neglect, or creating harm.