Ages ago I’d read something like “women have a lower threshold before they start feeling pain, but a higher overall pain tolerance as compared to men”. I.e. they feel pain earlier than a man might under similar conditions, but are able to cope with higher pain levels better. At that same time there seemed to be wide agreement that pain was poorly understood. Surely a lot of good work on the study of pain has been done that I am not aware of in the intervening time.