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"The World Is Built For Men": Woman Gives 20 Examples That Show How Women Are Discriminated In Everyday Life A lot of medicines are tested exclusively on men, so women end up getting prescribed doses that are way too much for them.

There's a very recent study on the matter that proves how severe this is: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200812161318.htm

allie_202_ , Yu Morita Report

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Marylen 3 years ago (edited)

I spent 7 years trying to find a good antidepressant. A friend of mine (a woman), knowing that I was a sensitive person, recommended I try the lowest dose. I found the 'right medication' right after, it's 75% of the minimum dose of a medication I already tried, which is usually prescribed just to see if there are no side-effects before being doubled. I open the small capsule every morning to empty it a bit. My doctor believes it's in my head, that I should not feel it at such a small dose. It's not the first time this happens.

31points

"The World Is Built For Men": Woman Gives 20 Examples That Show How Women Are Discriminated In Everyday Life Women are often misdiagnosed. They experience 50% higher rates of heart attack misdiagnosis, because they get less typical-symptoms, like subtle chest pressure or tightness in the chest, rather than the male presentation of full-blown chest pain.

Here's a recent study that proves this fact: https://www.jcreiterlaw.com/posts/women-more-likely-than-men-to-suffer-misdiagnosis-according-to-studies/

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Penny Fan 3 years ago

If a woman under 45 is ill its dismissed as "hormone trouble". If a woman over 45 is ill it's dismissed as "menopause" No need to examine further...

85points

"The World Is Built For Men": Woman Gives 20 Examples That Show How Women Are Discriminated In Everyday Life Head rests in cars - they push women's head forwards funny, especially if they have their hair up. It's not comfortable or safe.

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Martha Meyer 3 years ago

Same for seats on trains. I've noticed how they are custom built for a man of about 1,75 m sitting upright. Don't dare being smaller or the back of your head will be pushed forward by the "neck rest" intended for the taller man!

46points

"The World Is Built For Men": Woman Gives 20 Examples That Show How Women Are Discriminated In Everyday Life It's considered totally normal for women to take birth control and deal with all of these side effects, but barely anyone ever talks about making birth control for men.

This study shows that male vs female contraceptives had almost identical side effects, yet male contraceptives were not fully developed due to these effects: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmjsrh/2019/12/04/adverse-effects-male/

allie_202_ , alycialeonard Report

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Anne 3 years ago

They invented a male pill. It was considered to have too many side effects. So they made one for women. Same amount of side effects, but now considered acceptable.

91points

"The World Is Built For Men": Woman Gives 20 Examples That Show How Women Are Discriminated In Everyday Life There's always absurdly long lines at women's restrooms because they're built unfairly with not enough stalls.

This article goes in depth why that's the case, listing economical and sexit reasons why this problem remains in our lives; https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/01/women-men-bathroom-lines-wait/580993/

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N G 3 years ago

They often have the same footprint as the men's restrooms. One key difference is that, even if you have the same number of stalls, there will still be a longer line outside the women's toilets because women have to take longer. For a pee - a man has to open a zip, whip out his penis, relax a few muscles, shake, replace and wash his hands. Women need to first get half-undressed (literally, the bottom half must be undressed) to perform the same function. Women's lines would be shorter if we were given different equipment to use. And that's without entering into menstruation delays. Really, to be equal in timing, women need more stalls.

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"The World Is Built For Men": Woman Gives 20 Examples That Show How Women Are Discriminated In Everyday Life NASA had to cancel its first all-female spacewalk because they didn't have enough women-sized spacesuits.

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Brendan 3 years ago

I heard about this a while ago, and I am still shocked by it.

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"The World Is Built For Men": Woman Gives 20 Examples That Show How Women Are Discriminated In Everyday Life Women often cannot comfortably reach the safety bars on metro subways.

This is true for children and shorter men, but as more than 50% deal with this problem, they should have found a way to change it for sure? Well they didn't

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Samantha Lomb 3 years ago

Practically dislocate my arm every time

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"The World Is Built For Men": Woman Gives 20 Examples That Show How Women Are Discriminated In Everyday Life Speech-recognition software is 70% more likely to accurately recognise male voices. When Siri was released in the US, she could find prostitutes and Viagra suppliers, but not abortion providers. If you told her you'd been [sexually assaulted], she'd reply "I don't know what you mean by that".

This article goes in depth about this issue: https://hbr.org/2019/05/voice-recognition-still-has-significant-race-and-gender-biases

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Brendan 3 years ago

This makes sense, actually. Alexa understands me almost every time I speak to her. However, my wife has to repeat herself to Alexa half of the time.

42points

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"The World Is Built For Men": Woman Gives 20 Examples That Show How Women Are Discriminated In Everyday Life Because of gender differences and metabolism office spaces are often way too cold for women.

This article proves the fact is true: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/science/chilly-at-work-a-decades-old-formula-may-be-to-blame.html

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Evil Swan 3 years ago (edited)

To be fair it is easier to wear an extra layer, than to undress. Considering male white color drescode -- men have to wear a jacket almost all the time, while for women it is ok to wear just a dress, or short sleave, or have a skirt/pants that doesnt cover her entiraly. As a woman i think we have it easier and have more options then it comes to temperature at workplace.

81points

#11

Women are under diagnosed with autism because the diagnostic criteria was written for men and they haven't bothered updating it.

This article goes into depth of this issue: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/14/thousands-of-autistic-girls-and-women-going-undiagnosed-due-to-gender-bias

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Jenn C 3 years ago

Girls also get under-diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, because we have less visibly obvious symptoms. Boys often present with hyperactivity, but girls are more likely to have distractibility and focus problems.

51points

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"The World Is Built For Men": Woman Gives 20 Examples That Show How Women Are Discriminated In Everyday Life CPR dummies are almost always male-bodied, so people who are trained CPR often don't know how to perform it properly on women. This was true until just recently a female CPR dummy was released. However, not many countries have those and traditionaly CPR is still being taught on male body manikins:

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/new-female-manikin-vest-to-help-train-rescuers-on-proper-cpr-technique-for-women

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GirlFriday 3 years ago

The original CPR dummy was named Annie ("Annie Are You Ok? Are you OK, Annie?") and the face was modeled after a woman, however the body did not have breasts because it was "unseemly" to present such a model in public. This is changing, but many of the CPR dummies today do not have breasts.

63points

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"The World Is Built For Men": Woman Gives 20 Examples That Show How Women Are Discriminated In Everyday Life Smartphones are often way too big for female hand sizes.

This article tries explaining why the most popular smartphone brands to not cater for different hand sizes: https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/smartphone-size-design-for-woman-hand/

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Marianne 3 years ago

And pockets in women's pants are much too small for them ...

95points

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"The World Is Built For Men": Woman Gives 20 Examples That Show How Women Are Discriminated In Everyday Life Fitness monitors (like fitbits) often don't accurately count steps when women are walking strollers (or anybody, for that matter, women just do it more often).

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N G 3 years ago

They don't count steps if you walk with your hands in your pockets either. It's just not a very accurate device.

62points

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"The World Is Built For Men": Woman Gives 20 Examples That Show How Women Are Discriminated In Everyday Life Equipment at the gym - there's a lot of machines women can't use because they can't be adjusted to them properly.

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Donkey boi 3 years ago

I haven't been to the gym in 15yrs, but when I was last there all of the equipment was adjustable using 'pull-pins' and other easy adjustment methods. I would expect todays newer equipment to even more so.

23points

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"The World Is Built For Men": Woman Gives 20 Examples That Show How Women Are Discriminated In Everyday Life Keyboards/mouses are built with male sizes in mind, increasing rates of carpal tunnel/tendinitis in females.

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Night Owl 3 years ago

One of the things to keep in mind when looking for a new one - I have relatively small hands

29points

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Martha Meyer 3 years ago

It's really good that there is increasing awareness of this. It wasn't done this way with ill intention, just with a lack of awareness. Medicine for ages has focused on and tested it's meds on young, slim, white, male patients as the standard patient because their test subjects were usually university students of exactly that description. We now see that this is harmful to women, children, older people (metabolism changes with age) and anyone who isn't slim or white (skin cancer comes to mind). Male engineers have built tools and cars and many other things from their own personal use experience, without thinking of the fact that people do come in all sizes and shapes. Children live in a world built for adults for exactly the same reason.

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Jon S. 3 years ago

This is the most sensible and useful comment I have seen on this page.

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fuggnuggins 3 years ago

I have rarely seen such a display of petty spitefulness in my entire life. What difference would any of these things make? None of these things favour any sex, and both sexes contribute to them. Evil male conspiracy against women. A list of 20 things that men AND women experience, that inhibit women. Yay for anti-sex-discrimination.

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mmornelas 3 years ago

Relax, a lot of stuff does not fit me well either (I'm with the patriarchal oppressors)

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Remi 3 years ago

With the medicine you've got a point, but everything else you've written is crazy talk. There are cars specifically built for woman, and tools and everything else.

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Pilot Chick 3 years ago

I’m surprised there was no mention of seatbelts. They are not designed for short people or anyone with boobs.

51points

Carmen Sandiego 3 years ago

Or pockets!

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Babsevs 3 years ago

Look at the book "Invisible Women". Loads in there on the automobile industry's failure to deal with the female body

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

I’m 5’6”, but short waisted, so sit shorter than a longer waisted person of the same height. I have to use those seatbelt clips to readjust where they cross my torso, otherwise they would leave a suspicious-looking bright angry red “rope burn”-type mark on the side of my neck, or just out and out garrotte me in an accident.

2points

Leigh C. 3 years ago

I know seatbelts and the seat can be adjustable but when you're the passenger the correct position doesn't seem to jive with the drive nor anyone sitting in the back.

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Vicky Zar 3 years ago

Or pregnant women

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Donna Leske 3 years ago

Seatbelts! I'm not short (5' 9") or skinny but seatbelts usually ride directly across my neck. I push it down, moments later it's back up across my neck.

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Yettichild 3 years ago

I'm a woman, and yes, things are unfairly favorable for men, but this is just getting ridiculous. A lot of the things she mentions do come in smaller sizes, they are just a bit harder to find. I have ZERO problems finding tools that fit my hand. Now, it takes a while to find that one perfect tool, but it does for EVERYONE. The chair thing is a matter of height, not gender. Really short people AND really tall people of all orientations have a hard time finding things that fit them in a mass produced world.

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Martha Meyer 3 years ago

The problem is that women aren't "short people", we are just women. WE are half teh population and for us it's the normal size.

28points

Ashley Galyen 3 years ago (edited)

Some of it is ridiculous. I think a broader take on this is that if 50% of the user base for goods or services are female then if you are a woman, you shouldn't have to try harder to find it as you are the normal user. Healthcare and cars are good examples.

7points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

I'm a very tall woman, so there's frankly no problem for ME, but my female relatives tend to be petite, so they do have a lot of problems. And I support their right to have the same access to a safety grip as taller people.

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Cattress511 3 years ago

I have never seen tools designed for women outside of basic household tool sets that some times include a drill, and from what I can tell, the only thing that makes them for women is feminine color, pink. None of those are brand name, or at least not one I recognize. None of the reputable brands make multiple size tool grips for different size hands, and if there is a tool company making goods for women, they aren't sold in any of the mainstream home improvement stores. Of course I wouldn't doubt that any tools designed for women would be priced higher because women would "choose" to pay more for the specialized option (like they choose deodorant or razors made in scents or designs for them instead of the 'basic' men's), and there wouldn't be much competition because women aren't a very significant market share for this kind of product. We are there, and growing, but half the employees I encounter at Home Depot still look around me for my male chaperone before answering my questions.

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Ian Bartels 3 years ago

Thank you! This post is just looking for things to complain about.

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Lyone Fein 3 years ago

I would love to get some recommendations. I cannot find power tools small enough for my hands at all. Can you suggest a circular saw or other power saw that comes in a smaller size?

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Martha Meyer 3 years ago

70points

Jon S. 3 years ago

This is the most sensible and useful comment I have seen on this page.

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fuggnuggins 3 years ago

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mmornelas 3 years ago

Relax, a lot of stuff does not fit me well either (I'm with the patriarchal oppressors)

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Remi 3 years ago

With the medicine you've got a point, but everything else you've written is crazy talk. There are cars specifically built for woman, and tools and everything else.

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Pilot Chick 3 years ago

I’m surprised there was no mention of seatbelts. They are not designed for short people or anyone with boobs.

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Carmen Sandiego 3 years ago

Or pockets!

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Babsevs 3 years ago

Look at the book "Invisible Women". Loads in there on the automobile industry's failure to deal with the female body

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

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Leigh C. 3 years ago

I know seatbelts and the seat can be adjustable but when you're the passenger the correct position doesn't seem to jive with the drive nor anyone sitting in the back.

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Vicky Zar 3 years ago

Or pregnant women

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Donna Leske 3 years ago

Seatbelts! I'm not short (5' 9") or skinny but seatbelts usually ride directly across my neck. I push it down, moments later it's back up across my neck.

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Yettichild 3 years ago

47points

Martha Meyer 3 years ago

The problem is that women aren't "short people", we are just women. WE are half teh population and for us it's the normal size.

28points