Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story

by Angela Saini

This problem runs all the way through research into women’s health. If a phenomenon affects women and only women, it’s all too often misunderstood.

“Part of the reason that there are more women than men around in ill health is to do with the fact that women have survived events that would kill men, and so the equivalent men are no longer with us.”