Women still fighting to get their dues in the medical profession

New exhibition at Royal College of Physicians highlights 500 years of women ’s struggle to get their foot in the door of the medical professionMedicine is not a welcoming world for women, even in 2018. Women holda tiny proportion of Britain ’s professorial medical posts, while theNHS has a 23% gender pay gap. Just last month Tokyo Medical Universityadmitted it had tampered with female students ’ exam scores to stop them getting in, fearing they would put their careers on hold to get married and have children.This pernicious culture of sexism and scaremongering is nothing new. It has been deployed for centuries to bar women from the profession and to trivialise their contributions as doctors.Continue reading...
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