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NHS is obscuring health info about women

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MerylStreep Sat 06-Aug-22 18:26:14

FarNorth
Thank you for putting this up.
I’ve been aware of this for some time but there might be some posters who aren’t.

FarNorth Sat 06-Aug-22 18:15:30

An article in the Daily Mail on the fact that the NHS has been making its info more 'inclusive' by removing words referring to women and female people, while not changing anything referring to men and male people.

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11080589/Why-NHS-sexing-WOMENS-health-pages.html

"Now, experts have accused health chiefs of sexism for only targeting women's health advice with inclusive language. Pages on testicular or prostate cancer have been left alone.

'A pattern seems to be emerging that women are the targets — not men,' said Professor Jenny Gamble, a midwife at Coventry University.

'It looks and feels like misogyny.'"