Sexism is sadly a lingering and pervasive fact of life. It may be 2016, but how much you earn, what degree mark you get, how seriously you’re taken in meetings are all still dictated by your gender. Yet while the gender pay gap has been widely acknowledged, an even more sinister yet seldom-discussed picture is emerging that a gender pain gap may exist too.
It’s a disturbing thought, but one which mounting evidence is making harder to ignore. Women’s pain is taken much less seriously by doctors than men’s is.