Whose expertise counts in hormone therapy decisions
Experience can accumulate while recognition still arrives unevenly. Sieghart documents how women are interrupted, doubted, overlooked, and required to prove competence that men are often presumed to possess. That bias becomes especially consequential in hormone therapy decisions, where patients need their symptoms, questions, and risk preferences taken seriously. Within this collection, the book connects workplace authority with medical self-advocacy: who is believed, whose expertise counts, and how women can challenge unequal dynamics without being told to become warmer, quieter, or endlessly better prepared. It names a pattern many women have felt but struggled to explain.
About Mary Ann Sieghart
Mary Ann Sieghart recalls describing her demanding professional life to a man who replied, “You’re a busy little girl.” She was about fifty and older than Britain’s prime minister. That belittling moment gave everyday language to the authority gap she later documented.
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