4 ways women surgeons face workplace bias
View in general practice is that 'ladies don't do hips or knees, just fingers or something'
20th May 2019
A patient expressed surprised at a surgeon’s fee, considering she was “just a female doctor”.
Another completed the consultation with the female surgeon, gave consent for the procedure, but then wondered, “who's going to do the surgery?”
Women surgeons have described a workplace where they face subtle gender biases from patients, colleagues and even from GPs during in-depth interviews with Sydney's Macquarie University researcher Dr Katrina Hutchison (PhD).
As one surgeon said: “I think there must be some idea out there in the general practice world that