Women need more flexible career structure to get to the top

Despite a liberal labour market, an equal opportunities policy, and social benefits, women in Norway do not easily reach positions of medical leadership. Although an increasing proportion of physicians are women, Kværner et al (p 91) found that they tend to work in traditional, sex stereotyped specialties, and the proportion of women at higher levels remains small. An interesting and promising finding was that the number of women holding senior hospital positions was positively related to the proportion of women in the specialty. To encourage female leadership, flexibility in career by a reassessment of the traditional linkage of career advantage and age is needed.


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Female medical leadership: cross sectional study

Kari J Kværner, Olaf G Aasland, and Grete S Botten
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