For a start, there are the rooms themselves: “Comedy clubs were designed for men, and by men,” Zoë Coombs Marr deadpanned. Photograph: Yaya Stempler/Sydney Opera HouseWhile 70% of chronic pain patients are women, 80% of pain drugs are tested on men and male rodents. The 2016 death of Naomi Williams offered a devastating case study of how severely these issues affect Indigenous women. “What more do Aboriginal women have to do to be heard and treated well in the medical system?” Guardian journalist Melissa Davey asked. “So many of these women, after being ignored by the health system, they’ve gone to chiropractors, they’ve gone to naturopaths.

Source: The Guardian March 11, 2019 03:22 UTC