Dr Ruth Abrams

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Talking General Practice · How can we ensure women GPs thrive in general practice? · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

So supervision groups, mentors, healthy practice dynamics, acknowledging that success might look different for different people, they're really essential factors as well.

With why this happens and the and the impact of it, I would I would say that it doesn't have to be this way.

It's partly a a

Social conditioning response is partly historic response, but the reason why, in some cases, women traditionally attract more complex patients can be attributed to these gendered expectations about how women care.

So last year I wrote an editorial of the BJGP with the title Mind the Expectation Gap, and in it I was talking about the double bind that women GPs might encounter.

Because what we see here is that women

I mean, GPs are expected to exhibit stereotypically female traits of deference, empathy, warmth, approachability, likability.

And at the same time, they're also required to embody a slightly more stereotypically masculine trait of dominance.

So asserting that kind of 10-minute appointment time and having aspirations and attainment for partnership and leadership roles.

That's kind of really where that double bind is.

And also at the same time, that the real challenge here.

patients do have a legitimate right to ask for a specific GP, especially for things like women's health appointments.

And then there all there may also be areas of speciality, but by choice a woman GP is decided upon and so volitionally take on those more complex appointments.

And again, it kind of goes back to my earlier point of all of this is only an issue when women are then perceived as inefficient in the system because those appointments take longer.

which inevitably will then lead to those feelings of perhaps perceived failure, perceived inability to cope within the current system.

These are very kind of historic societal perceptions that that we need to kind of carefully interrogate.

Absolutely.

And I'm really glad you mentioned that because one of the things that I have

encountered from doing this research is is pushback from various different spheres.

And it's been a very interesting point of reflection actually because it's really important that we do acknowledge that this is affecting the majority of women who work in general practice and also

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