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This month for Feminist Fact Friday I’m focusing on the topic of HEALTH and how being a woman generally means receiving a lower standard of care in every way imaginable. From taking longer to receive a diagnosis, through to male symptoms being considered the default, there are grave consequences to being a woman seeking help…. Continue reading
In last week’s first post on HEALTH I looked at the fatal consequences of ignoring the differences between men’s and women’s bodies: women are 50% more likely to be misdiagnosed following a heart attack because their symptoms are different to men’s. Endometriosis is a long-term condition where tissue similar to those lining the womb grow… Continue reading
This month I’m focusing on HEALTH, as the nights draw in and the cold returns. As I wrote in my introduction, the reason for this focus is that medical practice is taught on the basis of the male body being the default and the female body being simply a derivative of the former. And this… Continue reading
Theme #8 for Feminist Fact Friday To date Feminist Fact Friday has covered everything from POLITICS, HEROES and MONEY, through to BEHAVIOUR, MEN and SPORT, finishing recently with one of the toughest topics yet: VIOLENCE. It feels quite natural to move from a topic were women’s bodies (and their minds) are so thoroughly damaged by violence, to an interlinked topic where… Continue reading