100 Gender differences in experiences of discrimination, sexual harassment and barriers to career advancement among cardiologists in the UK

IntroductionFemale physicians face many hurdles, starting from medical school through their careers including a disparity in pay, professional advancement, barriers to work-life balance gender discrimination and sexual harassment. Limited research has been carried out in the UK to determine whether...

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Veröffentlicht in:Heart (British Cardiac Society) 2019-05, Vol.105 (Suppl 6), p.A83
Hauptverfasser: Jaijee, Shareen, Kamau, Caroline
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:IntroductionFemale physicians face many hurdles, starting from medical school through their careers including a disparity in pay, professional advancement, barriers to work-life balance gender discrimination and sexual harassment. Limited research has been carried out in the UK to determine whether women Cardiologists face similar issues.MethodsA questionnaire was developed from previous studies carried out in the US and from other validated questionnaires. An online survey platform was used to distribute the survey between March and May 2018 to male and female consultant cardiologists in the UK. Ethical approval was obtained from Birkbeck, University of London. Comparisons between men and women were carried out using the chi square test, and tested for pairwise comparisons with a Bonferroni correction for multiple analyses. A two-sided p value of
ISSN:1355-6037
1468-201X
DOI:10.1136/heartjnl-2019-BCS.97