Operating in the margins: Women’s lived experience of training and working in orthopaedic surgery in South Africa
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Published:2023-04-27
Issue:1
Volume:7
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ISSN:2532-2044
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Container-title:Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare
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Short-container-title:Qual Res Med Healthc
Author:
Thiart Marí, O’Connor MeganORCID, Müller JanaORCID, Holland Nuhaa, Bantjies JasonORCID
Abstract
Medicine in South Africa (SA), as in other parts of the world, is becoming an increasingly gender diverse profession, yet orthopaedic surgery continues to be dominated by men, with women constituting approximately 5% of the profession in SA. The aim of this descriptive qualitative study was to explore women’s experiences of training and working as orthopaedic surgeons in SA and identify structures, practices, attitudes, and ideologies that may promote or impede the inclusion of women. Data were collected via focus group discussions with women orthopaedic surgeons (n=16). Grounded in phenomenology, data were analysed using thematic analysis following a data-driven inductive approach to making sense of participants’ experiences. Five main themes emerged: i) dynamic working environments and the work of transformation; ii) negotiating competing roles of mother and surgeon; iii) belonging, exclusion and internalised sexism; iv) gaslighting and silencing; and v) acts of resistance – agency and pushing back. The findings highlight the dynamic process in which both men and women contribute to co-creating, re-producing, and challenging practices that make medicine more inclusive.
Publisher
PAGEPress Publications
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Building and Construction
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