Category : Gender Bias

Mentoring is about building relationships that help guide the newbie through the labyrinth of experiences a physician faces.  Many women have men as mentors for those areas that were considered gender neutral.  But for the specific issues that...

Expediting The Inevitable is an organization dedicated to changing the way the healthcare marketplace and women physicians engage to achieve business growth and clinical excellence without sacrificing quality of patient care. But every time we begin...

ETI member, Dr. Lisa Lehmann is the director of the Center for Bioethics at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts. After hearing about the struggles and experiences...

The “old boys” network is blamed for keeping us down and keeping us out. Instead of complaining, we must start building a “new girls” network. Women physicians know not of the importance of creating powerful, enduring relationships in the...

Last week I wrote about flexibility in transforming the careers of women physicians. Necessary but not sufficient.  Now, how do we build flexibility into the workplace? Generally evolving workplace trends are also operant for physicians in the...

“The political is personal.” Attributed to Carol Hanisch’s 1969 essay of the same name, this phrase embodies the second wave feminists whose personal aspirations were negated because they brought their “personal”...