Another of the worlds great inequality issues. Women’s rights. As a side note I wonder what percentage of those women are black. That’s the double whammy, black and female.
I was reading an article the other day on deaths during childbirth and it’s once again disproportionately high in specifically for black women. Now I was thinking it must me related to sickle cell or something along those lines but no, apparently it stems from a train of thought that stems back from the slave trade that doctors of all colours believe that black people feel pain in a different way to other races so when the woman says she’s in excruciating pain it’s dismissed/downplayed as not being as serious as if a woman from a different race was saying it so problems during labour can be missed until it’s too late of the back of this until it’s considerably more serious or too late. Apparently it’s a belief widely held by medical professionals in every health service in the world including African nations. I’ll have to see if I can find the article again.
