Two-thirds of women report bias or discrimination in Australian healthcare in national survey

The assistant minister for health, Ged Kearney, chairs the National Women’s Health Advisory Council, which conducted the End Gender Bias survey. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

A woman “bullied into” accepting long-term contraception in order to obtain endometriosis surgery is one of many dehumanising experiences of gender bias in the health system revealed by a government survey.

Of the 2,570 female patients who responded to the End Gender Bias survey, two-thirds reported gender bias or discrimination.