Women living with chronic pain face pervasive medical gender bias and discrimination at work, intensifying their struggle to manage their health while sustaining their employment.
Health practitioners often downplay women's pain as exaggerated or fabricated. This dismissal leads to shame, forcing women to hide their pain at work.
Not being believed by practitioners caused these women to suffer in silence, pushing through pain at work, frequently resulting in worsening conditions.
In Victoria, despite 40% of women living with chronic pain, a third have experienced dismissal of their symptoms by health professionals.
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