Emma Bower

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

And understand that people's roles are not necessarily as defined as that anymore.

That the woman is the person that does the childcare and the man is the person that goes out to to work.

It doesn't work like that anymore.

what can GP practices themselves do to kind of recognise the challenges that women in particular have?

Do they need to think about things like redesigning appointments or and how can they recognise that maybe women have those motionally demanding consultations that we were talking about earlier?

That's good advice as well.

We've talked a lot about part-time working.

Obviously, the irony of that, as I often talk about on the podcast with my colleague Nick, is that

Part time working in general practice isn't often part time working, a six session week easily translates into a full time job in other sectors.

Obviously, part time GPs often face differential treatment or lack of respect, do you talked about in the study for being part time.

Do you think we need to change how we define

measures and how we value workload so that part time options actually protect clinicians instead of hiding full time work.

One of the big criticisms in your paper is that the medical

Literature places a heavy reliance on on telling women GPs to fix their own circumstances, you know, to do better at self care or set boundaries rather than it being an organisational problem.

This is something that's been a kind of thing in general practice for quite a long time, you know, generally, about this idea that burnout and stress is something you've got to manage yourself rather than recognising the fact that because it is such a problem in general.

practice because the system is set up in such a way that makes the job

so demanding.

I mean, why is that narrative so

damaging for workforce retention.

The other thing that women have to deal with quite a lot is sexism and sexual harassment and you mentioned that in the study.

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