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Medical science is in fact terribly biased against women because the standard baseline is almost always a typical male body
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this post was submitted on 24 May 2025
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I won't pretend to see the whole picture here but it sounds like we're talking about 7% female specific data vs everything else. Most of the remaining data may be non gender specific.
To present this as 7% female and 93% male is disingenuous.
As a counterpoint, breast cancer research (an issue predominantly affecting women) recieves far more funding than prostate cancer research.
Then again, is breast cancer here counted as female or non gender specific?
They really do make it sound as if 93% goes to male only research, but I highly doubt that's he case
I'm a casual observer, so take this as the understanding of some dumbass on lemmy rather than anybody who's actually been in the medical field. My understanding is that the majority of "non-gendered" medical research done through history has actually been male only, given discrimination and women being hidden inside the home for a lot of history. I've also heard that young male cadavers were WAY more available in like industrial revolution england than young female cadavers (affecting both medical research and training) just given who was more likely to get a dangerous job and die young. I know modern medicine understands how to sample a population a bit better than that, but the absolute vast majority of medical research still happened in places/eras that considered women property.
There is no such thing as "non gender specific". That's a lie you've been sold. "Gender neutral"' means cismale.
Hormones play a huge part in drug interactions and cis men do not cycle like ciswomen.
Look up gender differentiated responsiveness to "non-gendered" SSRI dosages for example.
As a researcher who works in biomedical sciences, a large part of that is lack of women volunteers or consent.
We can't simply force trials onto women, we have to get consent.
How would you suggest we get women to volunteer for early trials?
I promise we'd love to have a perfect sample set, and gender differences are extremely important (Another study we're debating doing is with the lethality of a gene knockout in male mice only, but not female mice, which we found incidentally while doing something else)