Emily Ryalls’ Divine Archives explores women’s collective and individual experiences with pain

Emily Ryalls’ Divine Archives explores women’s collective and individual experiences with pain

Pain is not experienced equally. Nor is it believed equally. Research consistently shows that chronic pain conditions disproportionately affect women and people assigned female at birth. Yet the ways pain is recognised, recorded and treated within healthcare systems puts women at a disadvantage. Research repeatedly demonstrates that women and girls face greater barriers to diagnosis and treatment, with practitioner scepticism contributing to une…