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In obstetrics
"See also: Abuse during childbirth"In Obstetric situations, the pregnant woman giving birth is the victim of gaslighting from a number of victimizers. Gaslighting in obstetrics in when pregnant women are shamed for their feelings and/or traumas. This is usually done by the people around them, medical professionals or other, and can happen before, during, or after their labor and pregnancy. Medical professionals may doubt a woman's capability of making it through labor and listening to her own body. Violent labors and the resulting trauma are often explained away by saying "At least you have a healthy baby." Women are also chronically undertreated by doctors compared to men and suffer disproportionately negative effects on care when the physician-patient relationship is poor.

Gaslighting in obstetrics makes a patient question her epistemic competence, and results in disbelief of her suffering. One study found that women giving birth were "subject to a controlled environment, surrounded by institutional rules and protocols that segregate them from their social and cultural context, as well as make them discredit their physiological capacity to give birth."

Recently a documentary was released on Netflix, The Bleeding Edge, that highlighted the struggles of women being ignored and gaslighted in reproductive care settings. Additionally, in the first episode of a KCRW podcast, called Bodies, they tell the story of a woman struggling with her sexual health having been to several doctors but still with no answer. Another example of gaslighting in sexual/reproductive medicine.

In the workplace
Gaslighting in the workplace is used to describe situations when people do things that cause colleagues to question themselves and their actions in a way that is detrimental to their careers. The victim may be excluded, made the subject of gossip, persistently discredited or questioned to destroy their confidence. The perpetrator may divert conversations to perceived faults or wrongs. Gaslighting can be committed by anyone and can be especially detrimental when the perpetrator has a position of power.

Gaslighting can be considered a kind of workplace harrassment. In the workplace gaslighting can be hard to spot, but looking for patterns of behavior can expose gaslighting that is happening. When attempting to avoid gaslighting in the workplace, it is possible that the victimizer will want to punish the victim for attempting to escape the harassment. Minor Edits:


 * 1) Hyperlinked phsychological manipulation
 * 2) Citation needed in Parent-Child section
 * 3) Intention to reorganize the In the workplace section
 * 4) Hyperlinked egalitarian
 * 5) Hyperlinked authoritarian

Peer review response:

-I will add hyperlinks in places where readers may need additional information to understand

- My second and third sentences are definitely awkward, I'll work on expanding/changing them to make them easier to read

- I added the word "by"

- I will put periods inside quotes

- I will add some more about sexual reproduction gaslighting, but I'm trying to gear this section more towards the period of pregnancy rather than reproductive health as a whole

-The first workplace paragraph is copy/pasted from the original Wikipedia page, so the citations did not come with. When I put it in the article, I'll make sure they're there

- I'll look for more evidence for workplace gaslighting to further support the text