Do any of you believe there's a gender health gap?

bIuemickey · 2025-11-10T02:56:12+00:00

I don’t think the failures of the healthcare industry isn’t a sex based issue caused by misogyny or sexism, but it’s framed that way, ironically because people care about women’s health much more than they care about men’s.

Doctors might not take women’s pain seriously or fail to diagnose their conditions, but they aren’t treating men any better. Men’s issues are dismissed and they’re gaslit as well, but men can’t really be vocal about it or spread awareness when “women have it worse”.

Women hold the majority of pain med prescriptions in the U.S. and are on them much longer than men, there are charities, organizations, people spreading awareness, etc for women’s health issues, and women receive more care than men so it’s like kind of crazy that it’s portrayed as a “gender gap”.

_WutzInAName_ · 2025-11-10T02:47:09+00:00

There is a gender gap in healthcare, and it heavily favors women. Good on you for having the critical thinking skills to question feminists, because much of feminism is based on lies and distortions. Not enough people have called them out on it, but more people are waking up.

Here’s some of the evidence, with sources, on gender health gaps.

• ⁠"In 2020, the federal government set out its public health goals for 2030. They include 42 goals for children, 29 for women, and 18 for LGBTQ+ people. For men, there are four... There are 44 preventive health-care interventions (excluding vaccinations) that are fully covered under the Affordable Care Act, a major public health advance of the last decade. Of these, 20 apply to both sexes and 23 apply only to women (including 12 for those who are pregnant). There is only one for men."

Source: https://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/men-are-having-a-health-crisis-why-aren-t-we-paying-attention/article_0e306c78-b35d-5452-a92a-445c7242072e.html

• ⁠"In 1994, the NIH sponsored 95 male-only studies, and 219 female-only studies. By 1997, the disparity had widened to 244 all-male studies vs. 740 all-female studies... between 1995 and 2020, women comprised, on average, 57.9% of participants in NIH-funded clinical trials each year, whereas men comprised, on average, 40.3% of participants each year, and 1.9% of participants were listed as unknown."

Source: https://jameslnuzzo.substack.com/p/there-is-still-no-womens-health-crisis

• ⁠The U.S. National Library of Medicine has 63 journals dedicated to women's health, but only 6 journals dedicated to men's health. • ⁠The U.S. federal government has 10 women's health offices and committees, but 0 for men's health. • ⁠During the past 20 years, the NIH has spent about twice as much on women's health as men's health. • ⁠UN and WHO databases consistently mention women's health more often than men's health in their health databases. • ⁠Throughout the developed world, you’ll find far more offices, organizations, initiatives, and charities dedicated to women’s health than men’s health. • ⁠Men more often get stuck with society’s most dangerous jobs and make up more than 90% of workplace fatalities, more than 90% of bystander interventions, and the vast majority of suicides. • ⁠Women outlive men in every country on the planet.

Source (with links to many other sources): https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTinMen/s/mQ1anrDlha

Bitter_Resolve_6082 · 2025-11-10T00:55:53+00:00

I believe that the physical labor jobs that are overwhelming done by men, working with chemicals, protecting society definitely helped create a health gap compared to women. Women's jobs tend to be less physical, cleaner environments and whatnot. Also men not being able to spend more time with their families, especially their kids put men health at a disadvantage! That's my take anyhow.

Late-Hat-9144 · 2025-11-10T01:04:06+00:00

There are different health gaps across different streams, however the reasons behind the different gaps are complex and not a simple case of "gender health gap is caused by misogyny".

For example, yes theres a lot of issue with poor understanding about women's reproductive health, however that wasnt caused by misogyny as is often reported. It is largely caused by women being protected and not used for human experimentation during the 1800's and early 1900's when the last big surge in reproductive understanding happened.

There is then also the opposite, for example range of options for reversible contraception. Women have many times more options than men for reversible options. Men have 1, condoms (vasectomies are not considered reversible).

Its often claimed that men "couldnt handle the headaches" as the reason why mens contraceptive pills never got off the ground, but this was blatantly false lies spread by misandrinsit people looking to dump on men. The real.story was the men wanted the pills, but due to how medicsl testing side effcts/benefits analyses are conducted, it didnt continue, as the medical impsct of pregnancy isnt experienced by men, so as the patient being considered, fhe side effects outweighed the benefits... and as much as men wanted the pill option, we were denied it by bureaucrats.

Another example is there are more deaths from prostate cancer than breastfeeding cancer, yet little is being done to improve funding and research into prostate cancer. Even fund-raising, such as Movember, which is meant to be for mens cancers, spends more on research for women's cancers.

There are other examples, but these illustrate the point. Essentially it comes down to "yes, there are gendered health gaps... but who experiences those gaps differs based on the healthcare topic".

63daddy · 2025-11-10T02:13:41+00:00

We have something like 5 health agencies just for women, none just for men. Obamacare mandated 20 some women only coverages, no male only coverages. Also under Obamacare, men subsidize women’s health insurance.

Yeah, there’s a healthcare gap.

86baseTC · 2025-11-10T00:59:27+00:00

Feminists are loud about their problems but Docs abuse men too. I’ve met some nutjob docs. You always have the right to a second opinion

IceCorrect · 2025-11-10T06:08:33+00:00

At one hand women are not taken seriusly on another men are guilty for not going to doctors untill its (too) late. Those women just dont see any logic in their own arguments

bulimic_squid · 2025-11-10T03:10:06+00:00

Every time a woman screeches in my vicinity about "medical misogyny" I like to show her the disparate amount of funding women's health care gets compared to men's health care.

Quite an experience watching a woman mentally bluescreen.

2DogsCaged · 2025-11-11T11:42:29+00:00

More men die from prostate cancer than women die from breast cancer. Suicide in boys and men has skyrocketed in the last 2 decades. In the West, four out of five suicides are boys and men. Suicide rates amongst men under 30 have risen by 40% since 2010. Suicide by males now accounts for as many deaths as breast cancer does for women. Both government and private funding for research education and treatment for women’s health issues is orders of magnitude higher than for men’s health issues. #TheBeatingRoom

UbiquitousWobbegong · 2025-11-10T05:54:45+00:00

I think women tend to make it a gendered issue because they have gendered health problems. My experience as a man is that doctors can be just as dismissive and useless about what we are going through. I flat out think most gps are useless. The amount of research I've had to do to figure out what tests to order, diagnoses I might have, and treatments to try, has left me very disillusioned with the ability for the healthcare system to diagnose and treat all but the most common illnesses.

I work in medical imaging, so I'm not a layman. But the amount of times I've had to fight with a doctor over a clear constellation of symptoms I have to get appropriate tests and treatment is disheartening. It can take months or years to diagnose anything that they don't see every day.

Actually, I think part of why women think they're not being treated well is because I think we have an inflated belief in the efficacy of modern healthcare. The amount of times I've seen doctors run batteries of tests for a patient and come up with nothing are uncountable. Healthcare science and technology are damn near miraculous when they work, but the rest of the time, it often feels like we're fumbling around in the dark.

I can't tell you why you have specific pains or symptoms sometimes. I can tell you if it's nerve-related, bone-related, etc. But can we find the specific reason it's happening to you and give you a targeted treatment that is guaranteed to work? Often not. Probably 30% of the cases I work on are acute, solvable problems that can be practically treated. The rest are cases where we can mitigate the problems at best, and that's assuming we can even figure out what the problem actually is.

Qears4snears · 2025-11-10T06:07:55+00:00

Your average white woman lives something like 8 years longer than a white man, 10 years longer than a Latino man, and 13 years longer than a black man.

How short do men's lives need to be before feminists stop howling and we all stop pretending that women are somehow oppressed by modern medicine? 60 years? 50? 12?

WeEatBabies · 2025-11-10T00:41:04+00:00

SNL reported on it, here is the clip : https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz0tgybuZbH/

Da_Famous_Anus · 2025-11-10T05:58:29+00:00

Life expectancy gap.

NullIsUndefined · 2025-11-10T18:54:01+00:00

Men die a couple years younger on average. Not sure if that's always been the case or if we could have men live longer if they had healthier, less stressful lives.

Really unclear since it seems like most of the world is like this

ralphswanson · 2025-11-10T05:13:53+00:00

There is a significant health gap and women benefit from it. Women live 4-6 years longer and consume 3/4 of healthcare dollars.

SidewaysGiraffe · 2025-11-10T16:11:58+00:00

I think that it's kind of silly to expect that we'd know; very few people have experiences of going to the doctor as both a man AND a woman, and if your doctor takes your complaints seriously, they'll do so regardless of your gender. And if they don't, they won't.

Acknowledging and working to remedy men's issues doesn't mean ignoring women's (few here will admit that they feel otherwise, but their votes tell a story their words won't); if women's issues are being ignored, something should be done about it (I don't know enough about medical practices to say just WHAT, though).

That said, the idea that women are disadvantaged in research and treatment is easily disproven- and the lifespan differences speak for themselves.

What I know, however, is that the past tense of "light" is "lit". Ordinarily, I'd ignore that; a minor point of language isn't even worth commenting on. But in this case, when it's all about manipulating perceptions in subtle ways, I have to wonder...

DizzyAstronaut9410 · 2025-11-11T04:37:08+00:00

People complaining about apparent lack of funding for women's healthcare while ignoring the fact the median age of death difference is close to 5 years is crazy.

Rare-Discipline3774 · 2025-11-12T11:26:16+00:00

Men dont have it easy, that's why men dont go to the doctor as much.

But those things are true for women as well, the thing is, they can just look for a new doctor like everyone else. Nor is this sexism, it's evolution, all conditions exist to keep the human population in check, healthcare exists to fight that. They're choosing to make it sexist instead of being egalitarian on healthcare price and quality.

marchingrunjump · 2025-11-10T11:28:24+00:00

Feminists rarely say men have it easy.

They always say everyone has it hard. So let’s focus on the non-privileged and opressed groups, elegantly dodging the question.

Quite clearly men’s health a lot less funded that women’s health. Even to the degree that we’re not even aware of the extent of the problem.

MelodicFriendship262 · 2025-11-11T02:47:59+00:00

I work in healthcare fwiw. We’re taught (& ive witnessed) men getting more pain meds for the exact same procedures. To take it a step further black men are treated less than their white counterparts. It’s implicit bias really, but you also have to take a look at research & see that the majority of animal models are mainly male animals. Rather than sexism it comes down to the fact that female organisms can make more offspring so it’s more useful to keep them because they’re expensive.

Title	Do any of you believe there's a gender health gap?
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Date	November 10, 2025 12:37 AM UTC (8 months ago)
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