“A white woman’s disease”

It has been said that endometriosis is “a white woman’s disease.” The disease of a white woman that is single, has no children, and with a career. You know why? Because it is a white woman who would be able to afford to be treated. I recently watched a documentary on endometriosis and a doctor bashfully admitted this is a phrase doctors would haphazardly throw around in the 70’s.