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What is the Gender Pain Gap & Why Does it Matter?
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If you're here, chances are you've heard about our short film, RUPTURE.
If not, please check out our home page & watch our trailer to learn more.
RUPTURE is a fictionalized re-telling of true events that happened to the writer-director, Ariel Bond, in 2018 while on a business trip in New York. What started as a pang of abdominal pain quickly morphed into a nightmare experience of medical gaslighting.
Most of us can't imagine anything worse than being in the kind of pain that makes us think we might be dying. What is worse? Someone not believing that pain. This is a situation women find themselves in every day.
Born into bodies built to handle childbirth, women typically underestimate the pain they're in, and even when they voice it, are often met with indifference, annoyance, and sometimes, complete dismissal.
RUPTURE was made with the goal of raising awareness for this issue—known as the Gender Pain Gap—and advocating for better treatment and health outcomes for women.
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Please note: This page is not meant to be medical advice. Consult with your doctor for any medical questions or concerns.
"There's a pain gap, but there's also a credibility gap.
Women are not believed about their bodies—period."
- Anushay Hossain, author of The Pain Gap
Statistics
"Treat the pain the patient has. Not the pain you think the patient should have."
- Roger Fillingim, Director of Pain Research & Intervention, University of Florida
Where to Start
THE RETRIEVALS
THE WASHINGTON POST
THE WASHINGTON POST
It was after listening to this podcast from Serial & The NY Times that writer/director Ariel Bond chose to tell her own story about pain dismissal. Thus began the journey of making RUPTURE.
THE WASHINGTON POST
THE WASHINGTON POST
THE WASHINGTON POST
Before we went into production on RUPTURE, we shared this article from Lindsay Bever at the Washington Post with the entire cast and crew as important context for understanding the Gender Pain Gap. It was originally published in 2022 but is still incredibly relevant today.
“Women are the predominant sufferers of chronic diseases that begin with pain. But before our pain is taken seriously as a symptom of a possible disease, it first has to be validated—and believed—by a medical professional.”
— Elinor Cleghorn, author of Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
Books
THE PAIN GAP
UNWELL WOMEN: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
UNWELL WOMEN: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
This memoir and collection of stories reported by author, journalist and advocate Anushay Hossain are a horrifying account of how real women, and in particular women of color, are dismissed and mistreated in the healthcare space.
UNWELL WOMEN: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
UNWELL WOMEN: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
UNWELL WOMEN: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
An examination of history that reveals how medicine has failed women, by researcher and author Elinor Cleghorn.
Videos
TED TALK: Why medicine often has dangerous side effects for women by Alyson McGregor
TED TALK: What happens when you have a disease doctors can't diagnose by Jennifer Brea
TED TALK: Why medicine often has dangerous side effects for women by Alyson McGregor
Discusses how common drugs like Ambien and everyday aspirin were only ever tested on men.
Published in 2014 but still very relevant today.
WOMEN'S MEDIA CENTER Beverly Wettenstein History Lecture by Anushay Hossain
TED TALK: What happens when you have a disease doctors can't diagnose by Jennifer Brea
TED TALK: Why medicine often has dangerous side effects for women by Alyson McGregor
How the systematic exclusion of women in American healthcare history can explain the current, ongoing and already worsening health crisis
TED TALK: What happens when you have a disease doctors can't diagnose by Jennifer Brea
TED TALK: What happens when you have a disease doctors can't diagnose by Jennifer Brea
TED TALK: What happens when you have a disease doctors can't diagnose by Jennifer Brea
The incredibly moving personal story of Jennifer Brea and her journey to be diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome.
Articles
COMING SOON
Recent News & Important Updates
NEW YORK TIMES: Health Officials Urge Doctors to Address IUD Insertion Pain
"As videos describing the procedure as agonizing spread on social media, new guidelines advise physicians to consider various anesthetics."
Published August 7, 2024.
Advocates & Other Trusted Sources
Anushay Hossain
Anushay Hossain
Anushay Hossain
Author of The Pain Gap, Anushay's substack is a great source of women's health updates.
Other Great Films about Women's Pain & Women's Health
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
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