One of the oldest and most insidious kinds of discrimination against women is the treatment of women by the medical profession. As Elinor Cleghorn documents in her outstanding work on the subject, UNWELL WOMEN: MISDIAGNOSIS AND MYTH IN A MAN-MADE WORLD, misogyny in the medical profession goes back as far as the ancient Greeks. We need to have a group to address the myriad of ways that women suffer from the systemic misogyny of the medical profession, doctors, hospitals and other healthcare institutions.

Women are discriminated at all levels of medical care, from research that ignores women's special needs and alternate biology, to treatment by misogynistic doctors and other medical professionals.

I think a group that was devoted to this will be very active, with many members contributing their experiences and their thoughts on this issue.