Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

by Kate Manne

Cardiovascular disease has been the most common cause of death for women in the United States for the last three decades. And following a heart attack, women are more likely than men to die—partly due to the fact that women’s symptoms (stomach pain, breathlessness, nausea, and fatigue) are often missed, since these signs are deemed to be “atypical,” instead of typical for women. In Sweden, women suffering from heart attacks are given lower priority for ambulances and have to wait an average of twenty minutes longer at a hospital before receiving treatment.48 In the United Kingdom, women are 50 percent more likely to be misdiagnosed following a heart attack. And young women who suffer from heart attacks are almost twice as likely to die in the hospital, compared with their male counterparts. Yet in the United Kingdom, research funding for coronary artery disease in men far exceeds that for women.

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