Five minutes with . . . Susie Perks-Baker

“When I was asked to take on the role of leading the Athena programme for senior female leaders in health and social care at the King’s Fund last year, my initial response was ‘no,’ because I thought the need for single gender schemes was obsolete. I then revisited the data on where women were in leadership and found that they continue to lag behind men. Global, national, and NHS data all show that—even after motherhood and part time working are taken into account—unconscious …