Our thanks to Nigel for this. He writes:
“In this country we have a new Women’s Health Strategy. As usual its all couched in the language of sexism “medical misogyny” and must do more. What it actually addresses is failings in the midwifery services and other female specialist areas of the NHS. Which are of course the most “female dominated” parts of the NHS. Which means of course that the supposed sexists and misogynists will mainly have been female! Somehow improving how women look after women in the women’s specialist NHS addresses “sexism” and “misogyny” ????
Meanwhile of course in fact men are far more likely to get late diagnoses, delayed treatment and die in almost every category of disease and illness that is common to all people. And of course they don’t have whole specialisms devoted to their health as males. In the “victim Olympics” the actual data shows its men who could claim to be subjected to “sexism” and “misandry” which results in their higher risks of actual death. The NHS obfuscating and squirming to avoid having a national screening programme for Prostate Cancer being a prime example! Wes Streeting just spouts the words when in fact he’s talking about an organisation whose workforce is 74% female, 81% female in NHS Maternity and related services. Does no one apply common sense?”
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This is interesting Women are just as autistic as men – but hide it better partly because “hiding it better” suggests they’re not that Autistic if they know how they appear to others. However it would not surprise me that there are more Autistic girls and women. The mechanics of this are generally a referral is made if the pupil is a “problem” (in Childhood Autism is picked up by the Educational Psychology services). And of course boys are far more likely to be perceived as a problem than Girls. I recall years ago in conversation with an Educational Psychologist she observed that the same behaviours were tolerated in Girls that led to referrals to her service about boys. I can well imagine behaviours that are “feisty” or “sassy” in young girls become rather more a problem in a 15 year old. Though again time and again we see “social contagion” amongst groups of girls as certain conditions become popular on social media. So this my be a part of it. I suppose it could go two ways a. resources get directed at girls and women and reduced for boys and men with diagnoses. or b. Autism becomes yet another saving girls and women thing and the whole field benefits from the sorts of resources that only get generated for saving women and girls, with males benefitting by default.
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Nigel asks “Does no one apply common sense?”
I suspect it is a rhetorical question but for new readers, I will just say:
No. They are applying feminism, the denier of common sense.
To anyone too tired to read the mountain of evidence that the NHS already serves females better than males I have a simple thought experiment:
If women were on average dying four years younger than men, can you imagine the NHS not bothering with special programmes to address the issue? But it is men dying four years younger than women – and nothing is being done. Not even any talk about anything being done. Not even any talk about equalising state pension by paying men four years sooner. Nothing.
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One thing that is particularly annoying is the assertion that men’s shorter lives are due to “lifestyle” as if its all about their choices. Before the financial crash NHS Public Health and Councils did “Health Needs Assessments” for each City/Borough/Town with data often going down to Council “wards” (the data sets are still collected but the health needs assessments sort of petered out following the credit crunch). These showed that the in some places the gap was over double the average. In poorer areas there was a small variance in women but much greater gaps for men. What the data showed was dramatically shorter lives in areas with heavy industry and “manual” occupations. Trades, drivers, shift workers, labouring, warehousemen etc. In short rather than “lifestyle choices” occupations were the key factor. Not only in obviously dangerous or noxious industries but in occupations with night shifts, sedentary long hours (all various driving occupations) etc. In a way many men are “dying for a living”.
In affluent areas in fact the difference narrows with the most affluent men likely to live almost as long as their female contemporaries. The observed effect is far greater for men with women in poor areas shorter lived than their affluent peers by very much smaller margins.
This sort of evidence actually stimulated some response from the Coalition. With David Cameron (PM at the time) Actually announcing increased hours opening from GP Surgeries and opening at the weekend specifically to enable men to more easily access GP services. At the time I was working in the NHS and what happened was the reverse with GP Surgeries shortening their opening times in the following years ! (an object lesson in how little actual power politicians have over the NHS).
As you say the data is collected and occasionally gets mentioned. But in general men remain largely ignored and indeed blamed for their poor use of health services and “choosing” to work in all the many occupations that carry elevated health risks.
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