And this stayed this way until about the 1980s, when this concept was challenged by the medical community and by the public health policymakers when they realized that by excluding women from all medical research studies we actually did them a disservice, in that apart from reproductive issues, virtually nothing was known about the unique needs of the female patient.
E isto mantívose así ata preto da década de 1980, cando este concepto foi cuestionado pola comunidade médica e polos responsables das políticas  públicas de saúde, ao decatárense de que excluíndo as mulleres de tódolos  estudos de investigación médica en realidade fixémoslles un fraco favor, xa que ademais dos temas reprodutivos, case non se sabía nada sobre as necesidades propias da doente muller.