To Be Taken Seriously: Healthcare Perceptions and Experiences Based on Gender
Category: Research Poster
Author(s): Charlotte Olszewski
Presenter(s): Charlotte Olszewski
Mentors(s): Martha Mehaffy, Justine Liepkalns
Sex and gender differences have been seen to illicit different, and even lesser, treatment of patients in healthcare settings. Furthermore, a lack of research and teaching into specifically female and female-presenting health has been a prevalent issue in the medical field. We investigated the perceptions of treatment of women within a population of college students at Colorado State University, as well as their own personal experiences within the realm of healthcare. Here, we show that perceptions of women’s healthcare reflect ideas of lesser treatment of this group in healthcare settings. Additionally, we found that experiences of survey participants within the groups of female and female-presenting match perceptions of mistreatment within healthcare settings. We also found that both perceptions of healthcare and experiences within healthcare differ between women/female-presenting individuals and men/male-presenting individuals.