Tackling Gender Bias in the Healthcare System
What Patient Stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change
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"Gender bias in healthcare is not just persistent: its pervasive. Women's voices have been questioned, minimised, or outright dismissed, often with devastating, even fatal, consequences."
This trailblazing book shines a light on the uncomfortable truths we all need to confront within gender bias in healthcare. Centred on patient stories and lived experience, this comprehensively researched, evidence-based resource amplifies women's voices where they have too often been undermined.
From heart health and reproductive health, to eating disorders, birth trauma, and autism, Jinty Sheerin and Louise Hockings-Thompson invite readers, particularly healthcare professionals, to listen, reflect, and act.
This book is an urgent and compassionate call to action, and a vitally important step towards clinical excellence and women's health.
This trailblazing book shines a light on the uncomfortable truths we all need to confront within gender bias in healthcare. Centred on patient stories and lived experience, this comprehensively researched, evidence-based resource amplifies women's voices where they have too often been undermined.
From heart health and reproductive health, to eating disorders, birth trauma, and autism, Jinty Sheerin and Louise Hockings-Thompson invite readers, particularly healthcare professionals, to listen, reflect, and act.
This book is an urgent and compassionate call to action, and a vitally important step towards clinical excellence and women's health.
- Published: Sep 21 2026
- Pages: 224
- ISBN: 9781805018810
Press Reviews
Cally Beaton, Comedian, Keynote Speaker, and Bestselling Author of Namaste Motherf*ckers
If you're a woman who's been fobbed off, misdiagnosed, or patronised in the healthcare system - so if you're a woman - then this book is for you. Medical misogyny gets a serious run for its money from Jinty Sheerin and Louise Hockings-Thompson, on their quest to expose the gender health gap and make sure the next generation has it better.
Jennifer Cox, Psychotherapist, Broadcaster, and co-host of podcast Women are Mad
Staggeringly comprehensive and compassionate. A vital, urgent resource for every home. And for every clinician.
Nicky Denson-Elliott, Founder of The Wilder Collective and Award-Winning Host of Women's Business podcast
For too long women have been told that their pain is imagined or exaggerated. This book names that for exactly what it is - systemic bias with real, sometimes devastating consequences. It manages to hold the personal and the political in the same hand. The patient stories are unflinching, and the research is meticulous, but what stays with you is the quiet, galvanising rage. This is essential reading for every woman who has ever left a doctor's appointment feeling like she was the problem.
Fiona Clark, Journalist, Author of MenoWars and Women's Health Advocate.
Louise Hockings Thompson and Jinty Sheerin have outdone themselves. An exceptional and accessible work on exactly the why gender matters in health. If you liked Invisibe Women and Do No Harm, you'll love this. It's the human side and it brings home why gender matters in women's health. I couldn't not be prouder of Lou and Jinty. They've nailed this, showing the misogyny, the misery and discrimination that women endure at the hands of the health system, but with a blueprint to make it better. This may be a hard read for some healthcare professionals but it's a must read - and a must read for all. It brings home exactly how women are currently treated and what needs to change. This book matters. Read it if you care about women and women's health.
Professor Julie Cornish, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon and Professor of Surgery
As a doctor we are trusted to hear patients concerns in order to treat their symptoms. This book highlights the need for us to not just hear but really listen to those stories, in order for us to really make a difference. I am a big fan of Jinty and Lou's podcast and the book encapsulates their fierce campaign to improve the healthcare system for women.