Funding by sex: These figures are from the 1990s. My most recent books are loaned out.
The figures from the NIH show that less than 20% of NIH's research budget is spent on womens' health. This is because 85% of their research budget is spent on diseases that effect men and women (and on basic science). If you look at the breakdown by sex, 10% is spent on womens' heath; 5 percent is spent on men' health.(1)
On Breast cancer/prostate cancer:
Women are 14 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than men are to die from prostate cancer(2), yet funding for breast cancer research is 660 percent of funding for prostate cancer research(3). The Death-to-Funding Ratio is 147 to 1 in favor of women.
(1)Interview by Warren Farrell, PhD July 14, 1992 with Vivian M Pinn, MD, director of the Office of Research on Women's Health, National Institutes of Health. These figures were being prepared to be sent to Congress in late 1992.)
(2)Cancer Facts and Figures: 1991 (American Cancer Society, 1991)
(3)Internal documents of the Reports Analysis EValuation Branch of the National Cancer Institute, Financial Division 1992.
All citations from The Myth of Male Power, Warren Farrell, PhD. 1993.
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