Category : Healthcare Workplace Equality

Recently, the term “subtle sexism” has started making its rounds in the medical field to describe the current state of affairs of the gender equity movement.  With overt sexism allegedly gone by the wayside, we are left instead with an...

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...

Almost 50% of residents are women.  It is estimated that 20% of them will become pregnant during their training.  Is this a cause for alarm? Program directors wonder: Who will cover the call schedule? Can the resident finish her educational...

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...

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...