How sex and race affect academic research

> Women wait around ten years in America for a diagnosis of endometriosis, a painful but historically little studied gynaecological condition. [..] Might such delays and biases reflect skews in academic research?

That's a nice anecdote. Let's see what happens when we expand the sample size:

Men die earlier but women’s health gets four times more funding (in Australia) - https://web.archive.org/web/20140104031157/http://www.news.c...