Why am I interested in women in leadership? Well, I grew up with three brothers, and no sisters. From an early age, it was clear to me that boys were allowed privileges that were not open to girls, and that the societal expectations on me were different from those on my brothers. I was encouraged […]
Month: March 2022
Breaking the bias: Celebrating International Women’s Day by By Helen Bevan, NHS Horizons team, England and Prerana Issar, former Chief People Officer of the NHS in England, in a personal capacity
International Women’s Day, 8th March 2022, is an opportunity to celebrate the role that women play at work and in the world. In healthcare systems around the world, women make up around 80% of the workforce. Women are doing 80% of the work, but not 80% of the decision making: women are not represented in […]
Learning from the past and paying it forward by Nuthana Prathivadi Bhayankaram
Happy International Women’s Day 2022! This year’s theme is #BreaktheBias, and it feels quite sad that in 2022 there remains a large amount of conscious and unconscious gender bias in medicine and society in general. Just a few days ago a patient’s parent kept asking me when the Doctor was coming to see her child, […]
#BreaktheBias is not easy by Evonne Hunt
I am writing this blog in celebration of International Women’s Day (Wednesday 8 March 2022) as I want to share some of mine and my female colleagues’ experiences. Not only as women who have experienced bias, stereotypes and discrimination but as women who actively work together for change. Writing about #BreakTheBias is not easy because, […]
IWD 2022: Beating a better path for the medical women that follow me by Chloe Orkin
I am the 80th President of the Medical Women’s Federation (MWF), the organisation that has been the voice of medical women in the UK for 105 years. The organisation’s history is inextricably intertwined with the history of suffrage in the UK. MWF has a proud and consistent history of effective activism, feminism, and mentorship. On […]