Being in pain is an incredibly lonely place, no matter who you are. But not everyone’s pain is treated equally. The UK government’s Women’s Health Strategy for England points out that healthcare still makes men the default in research and clinical trials. This means that women’s pain is consistently under-researched, under-treated, and less well understood.
Nurofen’s Gender Pain Gap Index Report1 revealed that one in six women experience severe pain every day, and more than half of women feel their pain is ignored or dismissed; for those who felt that way, one in four women said no one took their pain seriously. But what can we do about it?
