Closing the Gender Gap in Medical Research: Addressing Disparities and Advancing Women's Health
- Dr. Rochelle Bernstein
- Apr 8, 2024
- 5 min read
The gender gap in medical research results in real-life disadvantages for women. Despite women outnumbering men in the U.S. for nearly 80 years, researchers have excluded women from medical studies due to historical and cultural bias, as well as policies that prioritized protecting fetuses. Although policy and social changes in the 1990s helped a bit, women remain underrepresented in research. Growing evidence from clinical research supports that women and men can differ greatly in their susceptibility and presentation of disease and their response to treatment, including adverse effects.
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