Surgery remains a male-dominated field, as female doctors feel that there are gender-specific barriers to them becoming successful in the specialty. — AFP
More than half of female surgeons in the United Kingdom have faced or witnessed discrimination in the workplace, suggest the results of a confidential online poll, published in the online journal BMJ Open.
Orthopaedics was seen as the most sexist of all the surgical specialties, the responses showed.
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