Pain Intensity Greater for Women Than Men, Study Finds

Mulheres tem mais dores e mais intensas do que homens.

Medical record analysis reveals that pain scores are higher among females for a wide range of diseases

-- Robert Preidt

MONDAY, Jan. 23, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- According to the results of a study in which researchers examined pain scores from tens of thousands of patients in the United States, women experience more intense pain than men.

The findings, published in the Jan. 23 issue of the Journal of Pain, suggest that greater effort is needed to recruit women into studies in order to determine the reasons for this gender difference, the Stanford University School of Medicine investigators said.

Movimento Feminista

Diálogo sem Fronteira - O Feminismo no Brasil e no Mundo - Margareth Rago

In Defense of the Imperfect Mother

 

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By STEVEN ERLANGER and MAÏA de la BAUME

Published: June 4, 2010

ELISABETH BADINTER, a doyenne of French intellectual thought, loves to cut against the grain of her times. Over the last 30 years she has questioned the notion of maternal instinct and blamed feminists for inventing the concept of the “victimization” of women.

Her most recent battle cry: to defend women from the impossibility of being “the perfect mother,” and even from the pressure to be a mother at all.

Los orígenes de los estereotipos de mujer

Investigadores universitarios estudian la imagen femenina en los mosaicos romanos

Luz Neira, coordinadora del estudio, en el campus de Getafe de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.ÁNGEL NAVARRETE (PÚBLICO)

La madre y esposa perfecta, la femme fatale que seduce y provoca la perdición de los hombres y la mujer independiente que, para serlo, ha de adoptar papeles masculinos. Todos estos estereotipos femeninos que todavía perviven en la actualidad ya estaban presentes en las representaciones artísticas del Imperio Romano. Así lo pone de