Women are being harmed and left in pain because many medical trials and guidelines ignore them. A paper published in the Medical Journal of Australia in 2019 found that across a broad range of health areas “data have been collected from men and generalised to women”.
Last week, the federal government announced the formation of a National Women’s Health Advisory Council to address medical misogyny that occurs due to a combination of social prejudice, medical ignorance and research exclusion. It can lead to catastrophic health outcomes for women.
