Women are being"gaslit" by a medical community that is"failing them" due to outdated attitudes and ideas.is warning that women’s pain is routinely disregarded by the medical community,"Gaslighting has come to light over recent years as a word women are using to talk about a kind of communicative disenfranchisement," she said.
"That means that research needs to be done into the areas that really matter to women's health," she said. "Something like 2% of publicly funded research goes into reproduction and gynaecology – that needs to change.""[To make] them attune gender dynamics in medicine and how to listen to women and how to make them feel heard and take their problems seriously," she said.
"I think doctors routinely overestimate how far we've come and that's because the default in medicine is still male. If you open any medical textbook, any picture of anatomy, the default, the standard, is still male. "When there's this idea that medicine is gender neutral, but it's actually mainly applicable for men, that leads doctors astray."