Ms. Sido, you are researching gender medicine. Are women treated worse at the doctor’s?
You can’t say that in general. But there is an inequality in health research: we still know too little about how the female body deals with diseases and how it responds to the drugs used to treat them. This is the “Gender Health Gap”: The male is still the norm in medicine today. For women, this can result in poorer health care.
Why is that?
Access to all STERN PLUS content and articles from the print magazine
ad-free
Already registered?
