The main source in the article is a paper saying > In general, women report more severe levels of pain, more frequent incidences of pain, and pain of longer du

The main source in the article is a paper saying > In general, women report more severe levels of pain, more frequent incidences of pain, and pain of longer duration than men, but are nonetheless treated for pain less aggressively. In other words, yes, doctors and nurses take women's pain less seriously. But since women overreport pain, that might be the rational thing to do. Whether it is rational or not would depend on the amount of overreporting and the amount of discounting by doctors and nurses. Or, to put it in reverse, which might be less gendering: It is possible that doctors and nurses treat women's pain in a default way. Men, though, are raised to be stoic and "suck it up", and so men less often report pain. Doctors and nurses realize that men underreport pain, and therefore when men do report it, they know it is statistically more likely to be severe, so they take it more seriously.