For many women in the medical field, the common pressures associated with the profession – long hours, emotional toll, work/life balance – can be magnified by the added experiences of misogyny and sexism. From making less than their male colleagues to seeing people express surprise that they are the doctor, women’s experiences can be fraught and frustrating.
Brian Shimamoto, MEd, manager of organizational and employee development for the CU Department of Surgery, has spent time studying misogyny and sexism and, most importantly, having conversations with women about them. He recently presented a Grand Rounds addressing whether misogyny surpasses sexism in modern medicine.
We sat down with him to delve a little deeper into the conscious and unconscious misogyny that can impact women and those who identify as female in the medical field.