Medical misogyny
- Investigation
- Investigation
Penny was told her agonising pain was just ovulation. The next day, she was begging to die
The case is one of more than 400 accounts submitted to this masthead’s medical misogyny investigation in which women and girls had their pain dismissed, minimised or declared imaginary.
- Aisha Dow and Kate Aubusson
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- Opinion
- Pregnancy
Being pregnant is risky and expensive. Should women be paid for it?
If society needs women to fall pregnant to reverse falling fertility rates, then it needs to adequately support and compensate them for doing so.
- Luara Ferracioli
- Opinion
- Women's health
I just had the same surgery I had 24 years ago for debilitating pain. Little has changed, so what does my future look like?
In the 25 years I’ve battled this illness, the treatment has not changed.
- Rebecca Wallwork
‘Indescribable, inescapable pain’: Bindi Irwin details three-year endometriosis battle
The conservationist and TV personality says doctors dismissed her pain as “part of being a woman” – now she’s urging “everyone to remember this invisible disease”.
- Kayla Olaya
- Exclusive
- Women's health
Why some doctors think endometriosis is being treated with unnecessary surgery
After decades of women’s pain being dismissed, endometriosis operations in Australia have nearly doubled. But some experts warn the system may have swung too far towards dangerous overtreatment.
- Henrietta Cook and Liam Mannix
- Opinion
- Women's health
Women’s hospitals are meant to redress neglect. In reality, they’re punishing women
As a clinician, a husband and a father of three daughters, I’m frustrated that women are receiving second-rate care.
- Vinay Rane
The story behind the Herald’s award-winning investigations
The Herald’s work has been recognised with national journalism awards – but who are the people behind these stories?
- Liam Phelan
- Opinion
- Opinion
As an Olympian, mum and doctor, I know our health system fails women
I’ve had patients who’ve been told, and I’ve been told, that pain is “just part of being a woman”.
- Jana Pittman
- Editorial
- Pregnancy
Patchy regulation in the freebirthing sector has put lives at risk
There is a role for doulas in supporting women during pregnancy and childbirth, but clarity on the limits of that role is essential.
- The Age's View
‘Lighthouse in the storm’: Melbourne nutrition influencer dies after home birth
Stacey Warnecke, known to her 19,000 followers online as NaturalSpoonfuls, suffered a complication shortly after delivering her child in a home birth, her husband said in a post on social media.
- Angus Delaney