Research confirms fifty percent of women feel their medical needs have been ignored because of their gender. Can faith play a part in the healing?

‘When I feel pain, I pause to ask my body what the root is and will often get a sense of what it is. Sometimes I will need to forgive others or myself, or I will need to consume or abstain from various foods,’ says Hannah Wickens, as she looks into the issue of women’s pain.

On reading Nurofen’s report on the purported minimisation of women’s pain, stating that women are twice as likely to experience prejudice from doctors when they present with pain, my first instinct was to applaud a clever marketing strategy to flog more pills. However, regardless of their motive, I sought to establish if truth dwelt within their claim, and what a faith-filled response could be.