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, […]
Category: International Women’s Day
#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 […]