Editing Androcentrism (section)

== Medicine ==
There is a gender health data gap and women are systematically discriminated against and misdiagnosed in medicine.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lego |first=Vanessa di |date=2023 |title=Uncovering the gender health data gap |journal=Cadernos de Saúde Pública |volume=39 |issue=7 |pages=e00065423 |doi=10.1590/0102-311xen065423 |issn=1678-4464 |pmc=10494683 |pmid=37585901}}</ref> Early medical research has been carried out nearly exclusively on male corpses.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Learmonth |first=Imogen |date=2020-09-09 |title=The gender health gap: why women's bodies shouldn't be a medical mystery |url=https://thred.com/change/the-gender-health-gap-why-womens-bodies-shouldnt-be-a-medical-mystery/ |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=Thred Website |language=en-GB}}</ref> Women were considered "small men"<ref name=":1">Anita Thomas, Alexandra Kautzky-Willer: ''[https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/226121242.pdf Gender Medizin].'' 2015.</ref> and not investigated. To this day, clinical studies are frequently confirmed for both sexes even though only men have participated and the female body is often not considered in animal tests, even when "women diseases" are concerned. However, female and male bodies differ, all the way up to the cell level. The same diseases can have different symptoms in the sexes, calling for different treatment, and medicines can work completely differently, including different side effects.<ref>Kurt W. Alt, Silke Strohmenger, Ingelore Welpe: ''[https://www.jstor.org/stable/29542669 Geschlecht und Gender in der Medizin.]'' In: ''Anthropologischer Anzeiger.'' September 2005, Jahrg. 63, H. 3, S. 257–269.</ref> Since male symptoms are much more prominent, women are symptomatically under- and misdiagnosed, and have for example a 50% increased risk to die from a heart attack. Here, the male and known symptoms are chest-, and shoulder pain, the female symptoms are upper abdominal pain and nausea.