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When it comes to sectors where gender inequality is rampant, health care is near the top of the list.

Women's health issues are often not taken as seriously as men's issues.

One study found that women who go to the ER with severe pain have to wait about 33% longer

than men. And last month, research published in the Journal of Women's Health found that even the

National Institutes of Health, the nation's leading medical research agency, applies a disproportionate amount of resources

to diseases that primarily affect men at the expense of those that primarily affect women.

Like most societal issues, there's some history here.

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