{"id":488,"date":"2022-03-24T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T09:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.profem.at\/?p=488"},"modified":"2022-04-06T11:28:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T09:28:26","slug":"tabuthema-frauenleiden-wieso-die-frau-in-der-forschung-vernachlassigt-wird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.profem.at\/en\/2022\/03\/24\/tabuthema-frauenleiden-wieso-die-frau-in-der-forschung-vernachlassigt-wird\/","title":{"rendered":"The taboo topic of \"women's diseases\": Why women are neglected in research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Film and television, advertising, social media... you might think the world is becoming more and more open and enlightened. But female sexuality is still a taboo subject - and with it, women's health.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The taboo on female sexuality is evident alongside a lack of reform in sex education and the still sparse knowledge of the female anatomy<\/a> also in the neglect of women's diseases in research. For decades, research has been devoted to the major common diseases, such as cancer and diabetes - the numerous gynecological women's diseases have largely fallen by the wayside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is a \"woman's disease\"?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"Women's health conditions\" is a historical term used to describe women's health problems or diseases, usually related to gynecologic complaints. These include menstrual cramps, vaginal fungal infections, bacterial vaginosis, vaginal dryness, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), endometriosis, bladder infections and typical complaints during pregnancy or menopause, and many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research: Hardly any focus on women's diseases<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Despite the fact that up to 75% of all women will develop a vaginal fungal infection during their lifetime and that bladder infections affect about 1 in 7 women once a year (both conditions also carry the risk of chronicity), these and other women's conditions are rarely on the research agenda. One of the reasons: Basic research is less lucrative for pharmaceutical companies than expanding sales of already developed drugs globally. In addition, it is proving difficult to recruit test subjects for studies on typical women's conditions, as diseases such as vaginal mycosis or bacterial vaginosis are still associated with a great deal of shame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result of this disparity, therapies for many common women's diseases, such as fungal infections or bladder infections, are still partly based on decades-old treatment concepts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putting women's health in the spotlight<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Um der Frauengesundheit die Aufmerksamkeit zu schenken, die sie verdient und braucht, ist es wichtig, mit gesellschaftlichen Tabus zu brechen und zur Aufkl\u00e4rung beizutragen. Auf unserer Seite \u201eFrauen unter sich \u2013 der Blog zur Frauengesundheit\u201c gibt es deshalb ab jetzt allerlei Interessantes zum Thema \u201eFrauengesundheit\u201c, hilfreiche Tipps f\u00fcr typische Frauenleiden sowie Aktuelles aus der Forschung.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Film und Fernsehen, Werbung, Social Media… man k\u00f6nnte meinen, die Welt wird immer offener und aufgekl\u00e4rter. Doch die weibliche Sexualit\u00e4t ist nach wie vor ein Tabuthema \u2013 und damit einhergehend auch die Frauengesundheit. Die Tabuisierung der weiblichen Sexualit\u00e4t zeigt sich neben fehlenden Reformen in der Sexualbildung und dem immer noch sp\u00e4rlich vorhandenen Wissen \u00fcber die weibliche […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profem.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profem.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profem.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profem.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profem.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.profem.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profem.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profem.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profem.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profem.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}