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Stop Misunderstanding the Gender Health Gap
Sex differences explain some of the gaping health inequalities between men and women—but a lot of the time, it’s sexism.
Well, research funding agencies are much more interested in looking inside our bodies for explanations for why things are as they are. Sarah Richardson’s team at Harvard University—she runs the GenderSci Lab —has done incredible work breaking down the causes of gender health disparities. At the beginning there were all these very wild claims about gender differences with the virus—for instance, that women were protected because on average they have a stronger immune system.
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