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Part two, further analyses and discussion.

So welcome to part two, Kate.

This is where the questions get a lot longer because we try to pretend we're more clever than we actually are.

So forgive me for the length of this first question, which is coming your way, because it's a bit of a mouthful.

And obviously, just for our listeners as well, again, this could be a potentially difficult topic to kind of get your head around. So let's just jump straight in. In one of the starkest chapters of Entitled, you talk about the entitlement to medical care. You include some shocking examples of how women are harmed by male entitlement to medical care. So, for example, women racialized as black in the United States

are three to four times more likely to die as a result of pregnancy or childbirth than their

white counterparts. You say, I'm quoting you here, women compared to men, receive less and less

effective pain relief, less pain medication with opioids, and more antidepressants, and get more

mental health referrals.

A major finding is that women's pain in the reviews studied was psychologised.

Women's pain reports are taken less seriously.

The pain is discounted as being psychotic or non-existent and the medication is less than

adequate for the treatment given compared to men.

This refers to the stereotype that boys and men are more stoical than women and girls when it comes

to pain, that they will, quote, man up and quote, deal with it, and that women and girls

exaggerate pain or are simply hysterical. How deeply rooted do you think this problem is?

Is it possible that, you know,

female doctors and female nurses are also participating in these patriarchal structures and neglecting women and girls? Yeah, no, thanks. I mean, I think those kinds of biases are very deeply rooted.

And I mean, this is, so a lot of these studies, they're

naturalistic. So they're looking at what happens in the field, and it's often difficult to

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