TY - JOUR T1 - Women with COPD JF - Breathe JO - Breathe DO - 10.1183/20734735.0239-2020 VL - 16 IS - 4 SP - 200239 AU - Emma R. McIvor AU - Isabel Saraiva AU - Jessica Denning AU - R. Andrew McIvor Y1 - 2020/12/01 UR - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/16/4/200239.abstract N2 - For decades, there has been gender imbalance when talking about different medical conditions. One key factor is that the “typical patient” has often been presented as male in descriptions and associated imagery. These thoughts regarding the “textbook patient” or the “typical medical case” are what creates health discrepancies and a dismissive attitude to other groups of individuals. Men and women should be equally represented in medical literature, medical artwork, clinical trials, etc. to allow for equal representation of both genders across all platforms. Creating a definition of a patient that all genders can relate to regarding their health is extremely important for the patient's own engagement with their health.Health inequalities regarding gender are extremely prevalent, and specifically in conditions such as COPD. No woman should ever be dismissed in regard to their health and underlying medical history. https://bit.ly/2X7KlmdWe would like to thank the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and European Lung Foundation (ELF) for their support. We would also like to thank the judging panel consisting of: Elaine Philpot Bruce (a woman living with COPD); Samira Addo, Sara Lavelle and Colin Davidson (Portrait artists); and Tobias Welte (respirologist and ERS representative). ER -