Woman Gives 20 Examples That Perfectly Illustrate That We're Still Living In A Man's World

These 20 examples make one thing hard to ignore, a lot of everyday life was designed with men in mind first. From cars and phones to office spaces and medical care, the gaps show up in places most people never stop to question.

That is what makes this list so striking, it is not about one big headline issue, but a pattern that keeps repeating across safety, health, work, and home life. The result is a world where women are often expected to adapt to systems that were never built for them.

And once you start noticing it, it is hard to unsee.

Car crash dummies are built with a male standard, meaning that in car crashes, women are almost 50% more likely to be seriously injured than men.

Many medicines are tested exclusively on men, leading to women being prescribed doses that are far too high for them.

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Women are 50% more likely to be misdiagnosed when it comes to heart attacks because they typically only experience mild chest pain, as opposed to the sharp pain that most men do.

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That pattern shows up in more places than most people realize.

Headrests in cars push women's heads forward, especially if they have their hair up. This is uncomfortable and completely unsafe.

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The disparity in birth control and side effects

There are always incredibly long lines at women's restrooms because they are built with far too few stalls.

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NASA had to cancel its first all-female spacewalk because it didn't have enough women-sized spacesuits.

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Women often cannot comfortably reach the safety bars on trains or buses. This issue also affects children and shorter men, but 50% of women deal with it.

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"Speech recognition software is 70% more likely to accurately recognize male voices. When Siri was released in the US, she could find prostitutes and Viagra suppliers, but not abortion providers. If you told her you'd been [sexually assaulted], she'd reply, 'I don't know what you mean by that.'"

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Women and men run at different temperatures; therefore, office spaces are often far too cold for women.

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Autism diagnosis

Females are underdiagnosed with autism because the criteria for diagnosis were written for males and have never been updated.

This is similar to the experts’ three bathroom warning signs for serious cancer risk, often overlooked for years.

CPR dummies often anatomically represent a biological male. Therefore, people trained in CPR often do not know how to properly perform it on a woman. The female CPR dummy was only recently released.

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Even the smallest tools can reveal the same bias.

Smartphones are often too big for female hands.

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The average female in the USA is 5'3" and the average male is 5'9". Considering this, many women say they cannot sit in an office chair with their feet flat on the floor.

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N95 masks often don't properly fit the faces of women and Asian people; they are designed for the dimensions of an average male face.

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Women often cannot properly grip household tools because they are made for much larger male hands.

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It's a given that women aren't able to reach the top shelves in their own houses.

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Fitness monitors (like Fitbits) often don't accurately count steps when women are walking strollers (or anyone, for that matter; women just do it more often).

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Equipment at the gym—there are many machines women can't use because they can't be adjusted properly for them.

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Keyboards and mice are built with male sizes in mind, increasing rates of carpal tunnel and tendinitis in females.

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It is a frustrating list, and it keeps going.

For more “am I the jerk?” drama about equality, see the Reddit thread where a woman challenges her partner’s family over equal financial responsibility.