Women In Pain Resources
Articles, Reports and Other Resources
Nurofen
Gender Pain Gap Index Report: Year Two
January 2024
Healthy Women
Women with Chronic Pain Articles and Resources
April 2021
Healthy Women
2019 Summit Final Report: “Women In Chronic Pain – Focus on Treatment, Management and Barriers”
April 2020
University of Michigan
“The Role of Early Life Trauma in Chronic Pain Patients”
July 2019
International Association for the Study of Pain
Global Year Against Pain in Women: “Real Women, Real Pain” Campaign
October 2007
Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics
The Girl Who Cried Pain: A Bias Against Women in the Treatment of Pain
By Diane E. Hoffmann and Anita J. Tarzian
June 2001
Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics
The Woman Who Cried Pain: Do Sex-Based Disparities Still Exist in the Experience and Treatment of Pain?
By Diane E. Hoffmann, Dr. Roger Fillingim, and Christin Veasley
November 2022
National Pain Report
“Women In Pain Report Significant Bias”
September 2014
National Pain Report
“Women In Pain Survey Results”
September 2014
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Daily Mail UK
“Research Settles Age Old Debate Whether Women or Men Can Tolerate Pain More”
September 2024
Yahoo!Life
“Women’s Pain and Discomfort Has a History of Being Ignored in Healthcare”
August 2024
PsyPost
“Groundbreaking Study Undercovers Male-Female Difference In Pain-Sensing Nerve Cells”
August 2024
Pain News Network
“Research Confirms What Women Already Know About Sex Bias in Pain Care”
August 2024
Science. org
“Emergency Rooms are Less Likely to Give Female Patients Pain Medication”
August 2024
Pain News Network
“Research Suggests Chronic Pain Should Be Treated Differently in Men and Women”
June 2024
University of Arizona Health Sciences
“Study Shows First Evidence of Sex Differences in How Pain Can Be Produced”
June 2024
MedPage Today
“An Older Woman’s Chronic Pain Is Not ‘All in Her Head'”
June 2024
Time Magazine
“Suffering Shouldn’t Be a Normal Part of Womanhood”
April 2024
Medical Xpress
“Research Suggests Chronic Pain is Different for Males and Females”
January 2024
SWLondoner
“Gender Pain Gap: Women More Likely to be Medically Gaslit”
January 2024
Pain News Network
“Childhood Trauma Raises Risk of Chronic Pain in Adults by 45%”
December 2023
Pain News Network
“Why Women Are More Likely to Suffer Migraines”
February 2023
The Washington Post
“From Heart Disease to IUDs: How Doctor’s Dismiss Women’s Pain”
December 2022
The Mirror UK
“Quarter of Women Feel Their Pain Isn’t Taken Seriously”
November 2022
MDLinx.com
“How Hysteria Casts a Long Shadow on Women’s Healthcare That Still Resonates”
October 2022
TED.com
“Dr. Sheetal DeCarla: The Bias Behind Your Undiagnosed Chronic Pain”
September 2022
Codelist.biz
“Invisible Women In Medicine: How Gender Biases Are Affecting Our Health”
August 2022
Pain Reports
“Impact of Demographic Factors on Chronic Pain Among Adults in the United States”
August 2022
New York Times
“Feeling Dismissed? How to Spot Medical Gaslighting and What to Do About It”
July 2022
MedicalNewsToday.com
“Why Some Painkillers Are Less Effective With Women”
May 2022
GoodHousekeeping.com
“The Gender Pain Map: Why Women’s Pain Isn’t Taken As Seriously”
May 2022
Zmescience.com
“Men and Women Feel Pain Differently – and This Study May Finally Explain Why”
April 2022
WebMD.com
“Even Women Doctors Find Their Symptoms Aren’t Taken Seriously”
April 2022
HealthCentral.com
“Women and Pain: A Special Report”
April 2022
Ottawa Citizen
“Finding of Sex-Related Differences in Pain Signaling Could Lead to Better Treatment”
April 2022
NewsGram
“Study Suggests Men and Women Process Pain Signals Differently”
March 2022
New Scientist
“Map of Pain Neurons May Lead to More Effective Drugs for Chronic Pain”
February 2022
Calgary Journal
“Why Medical Professionals Don’t Always Take Women’s Pain Seriously”
December 2021
HistroyExtra.com
“The Gender Pain Gap: Perceptions of Women’s Health Through History”
August 2021
Georgetown University School of Nursing
“Addressing Implicit Bias in Women’s Health”
August 2021
Insider.com
“Women’s Chronic Pain is Often Dismissed as Being ‘Dramatic’ – Which Can Ruin Health and Lives”
July 2021
The Guardian
“Why Women Are More Likely to Suffer From Long COVID”
June 2021
The Guardian
“Sufferers of Chronic Pain Have Long Been Told It’s All in Their Head”
June 2021
The Pharmaceutical Journal
“Sex Differences in Chronic Pain Linked to Genetics”
June 2021
Time.com
“Medical Myths About Gender Roles Go Back to Ancient Greece”
June 2021
Eminetra.com
“Medical Failure With Painful Women”
June 2021
DailyNews.uk
“Women’s Pain Is Not Taken as Seriously as Men’s”
April 2021
Cosmosmagazine.com
“Chronic Pain in Women Could Be Genetic”
April 2021
MsMagazine.com
“Gender Bias in Health Care Is Playing a Dangerous Role in COVID-19 Care”
October 2020
PubMed.Gov
“An Evaluation of Sex Differences in Patients with Chronic Pain Undergoing an Interdisciplinary Pain Treatment Program”
August 2020
The McGill Tribune
“Sex Bias in Pain Research Leads to Failed Studies, Inequity in Pain Management”
July 2020
Pain News Network
“Sex Bias Persists in Pain Research”
May 2020
Medical News Today
“Brain Differences Between Men and Women Affect Response to Pain Relief”
December 2019
HealthyWomen.org
“Why Men and Women Feel Pain Differently”
November 2019
HealthyWomen.org
“New Toolkit Aims to Educate Women About Prescription Opioids”
August 2019
NPR.org
“Women May Be More Adept at Discerning Pain Than Men”
August 2019
LeapsMag.com
“Women and Men Experience Pain Differently. Learning Why Could Lead to Better Drugs.”
August 2019
Washington Post
“Is Bias Keeping Women, Minorities Patients from Getting Proper Care for Their Pain?”
July 2019
Vice.com
“‘I Lost Everything’: The Obscene Cost of Being a Woman with a Chronic Health Problem”
July 2019
Los Angeles Times
“Researchers Avoid ‘Messy” Hormonal Female Mice. And That Hurts Women”
June 2019
Psychology Today
“The Scientific Relationship Between Menopause and Pain”
May 2019
Consumer Reports
“‘All in Your Head?’ Getting Care for Untreated Pain”
April 2019
Nature
“Why the Sexes Don’t Feel Pain the Same Way”
March 2019
Wired.com
“Women’s Pain Is Different From Men’s – the Drugs Could Be Too”
March 2019
New York Times
“Why Are We Still Dismissing Girls’ Pain?”
February 2019
Rewire.News
“Chronic Pain Is Overwhelmingly Experienced by Women—So Why Do They Have Trouble Getting Care for It?”
March 2018
WNYC.org
“How the Medical Community Undermines Female Pain”
March 2018
Daily Mail UK
“Doctors Fail to Take Women Suffering Pain as Seriously as Men”
February 2018
Harvard Health Publishing
“Women and Pain: Disparities in Experience and Treatment”
October 2017
PainNewsNetwork.com
“Women Catastrophize About Pain More Than Men”
June 2017
HealthCentral.com
“Do Women Experience Chronic Pain Differently?”
May 2017
PainNewsNetwork.com
“Why Women Feel Chronic Pain More Than Men”
March 2017
The Conversation
“Genders Experience Pain Differently, and Women Have It More”
December 2015
MotherNatureNetwork.com
“Why Do Doctors Take Women’s Pain Less Seriously?”
October 2015
Migraine.com
“Men and Women Experience Migraine Differently”
July 2015
MedicalNewsToday.com
“Gender Difference in Pain Transmission, Reports New Study”
June 2015
Newswire.com
“Research Finds Males and Females Process Chronic Pain Differently”
June 2015
RhRealityCheck.com
“Chronic Pain Is Overwhelmingly Experienced by Women; So Why Do They Have Trouble Getting Care for It?”
February 2015
National Pain Report
“Women In Pain Survey Results”
September 2014
National Pain Report
“National Pain Report Readers’ Survey of Women in Pain Attracts Robust Response”
September 2014
National Pain Report
“Your Pain is Your Fault: What Women Are Told by Their Doctors”
September 2014
National Pain Report
“Childhood Trauma and Adult Pain: Is There a Connection?”
September 2014
Health.com
“How Women’s Pain Differs from Men’s”
August 2014
The Boston Globe
“I Don’t Feel Your Pain”
June 2014
The Wall Street Journal
“Escape from the Chronic Pain Trap”
February 2014
iVillage.com
“Women and Pain: 10 Ways It Really Is Different”
April 2013
SpinalStenosis.org
“Men vs. Women on Pain: Do Women Really Suffer More?”
December 2012
The Lund Report
“Medical and Psychological Risks and Consequences of Long-Term Opioid Therapy in Women”
August 2012
The Journal of Pain
“Women report feeling pain more intensely than men, says study of electronic records”
January 2012
Scientific American
“Women Feel Pain More Intensely Than Men Do”
January 2012
Medical News Today
“Dissimilar Interaction Of Opioid Receptors May Explain Why Men And Women Experience Pain Differently”
August 2011
WebMD.com
“Women’s Chronic Pain More Intense”
August 2010
Paintopics.org
“John Henryism” & Pain-Relief Deficits in Women”
August 2010
Newswise.com
“Men and Women Differ in Pain Drug Abuse Risks”
April 2010
Docstoc.com
“Women and Pain: An Overview”
February 2010
BMC Medicine
“Sex differences in rheumatoid arthritis: More than meets the eye”
March 2009
Reuters
“More U.S. women getting rheumatoid arthritis: study”
October 2008
The Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
“Sex bias seen in control of cancer pain”
August 2008
“Women, Men and Ouch! the Painful Truth”
O, The Oprah Magazine, April 2008
“Gender Bias May Affect Care of People with Osteoarthritis”
University of Toronto, March 2008
“The best new pain cures, with a focus on women”
CNN.com, June 2007
“Not Feeling Each Other’s Pain”
Washington Post, December 2006
Extra Nerve Fibers May Heighten Female Pain Perception
MedPage Today, October 2005
Pain May Be in the Brain, But It’s Still Real
ABC News, May 2005
Painkillers Designed Especially For You?
ABC News, May 2005
Black women with chronic pain suffer more physical and psychological distress
University of Michigan Health System, October 2005
Hurting More, Helped Less?
New York Times, June 23, 2002
