Gender matters in medical education

Context  Women are in the majority in terms of entry to medical schools worldwide and will soon represent the majority of working doctors. This has been termed the ‘feminising’ of medicine. In medical education, such gender issues tend to be restricted to discussions of demographic changes and structural inequalities based on a biological reading of gender. However, in contemporary social sciences, gender theory has moved beyond both biology and demography to include cultural issues of gendered ways of thinking. Can contemporary feminist thought drawn from the social sciences help medical educators to widen their appreciation and understanding of the feminising of medicine?

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