scholarly journals ‘We'D like to Have a Family’ - Young Women Doctors’ Opinions of Maternity Leave and Part-Time Training

1989 ◽  
Vol 82 (9) ◽  
pp. 528-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
V J Warren ◽  
R E Wakeford
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Maternity Leave ◽  
Women Doctors ◽  
Part Time

Part-Time Residency Training

1981 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 484-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Fisman ◽  
Lynne Ginsburg
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Residency Training ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Royal College ◽  
The United States ◽  
Women Physicians ◽  
Psychiatry Residents ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Part Time

The development of part-time training in the United States and Canada is described. The flexibility required for young women physicians who attempt to combine childbearing and career development, together with the increasing number of women entering medicine, underlines the importance of part-time training schedules. A variety of flexible training options have been defined and a set of guidelines has been produced by the Canadian Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. The experiences of part-time psychiatry residents at Queen's University, Kingston is presented. Thus far this has involved a total of six residents over a four year period, including the authors of this paper. The advantages and disadvantages, viewed from both the resident and system viewpoint, are discussed.

Women doctors paid less than men even after part time working is accounted for

BMJ ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. m4904
Author(s):  
Abi Rimmer ◽  
Adrian O’Dowd
Keyword(s):  
Women Doctors ◽  
Part Time

Allied health professionals in Queensland Health returning to work after maternity leave: hours of work and duration of time on part-time hours

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Julie Hulcombe ◽  
Sandra Capra ◽  
Gillian Whitehouse
Keyword(s):  
Return To Work ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Allied Health ◽  
Maternity Leave ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Allied Health Professionals ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Staff Management ◽  
Queensland Health ◽  
Part Time

Objective The aim of this study was to provide a detailed description of the flexible working arrangements (FWA) used by allied health professionals (AHP) on return from maternity leave. This is a crucial issue for staff management practices in a changing regulatory context. Methods A retrospective convenience sample of AHP employed by Queensland Health (QH) in 2006, using deidentified payroll data, was analysed descriptively to determine employment status on return from maternity leave in 2006 to December 2014. A qualitative study that surveyed managers of AHP departments was subsequently undertaken to complement the data from the payroll study. Twelve managers, across six allied health professions in three hospitals in south-east Queensland were surveyed for this component. Results The payroll study included 169 employees (138 full-time equivalent (FTE)), 61 of whom resigned over the study period. Of those who returned to work after the 2006 maternity event (n=152), 92% (n=140) initially returned part-time. At 31 December 2014, of the 108 staff working for QH, 77% (n=83) were part-time. In total, 75.4 FTE positions were released over the 8-year period through reduced working hours and resignations. The perceptions of surveyed managers were consistent with the data from the payroll study. Conclusion The study showed that most AHPs who took maternity leave returned to work part-time and remained part-time for an extended period. The data suggest that managers could permanently backfill a proportion of hours released due to FWA after maternity leave without major budgetary risk due to the need to accommodate existing employees’ entitlements. However, this would require a significant policy change. What is known about this topic? Current research on this topic has concentrated on the benefits of paid maternity leave, timing of return to work and use of FWA by employees on return to work after maternity leave. What does this paper add? This paper presents the first comprehensive data on patterns of return to work and part-time hours following maternity leave for AHP employees. Access to a unique payroll dataset provided the opportunity to describe this for a cohort of AHP employees over a period of 8 years following a maternity event. A survey of AHP managers’ experience with maternity leave and return to work arrangements supported the findings, underlining the associated difficulties with staff management. What are the implications for practitioners? The hours released through resignations or reduced hours over this period of study suggest that management could backfill a proportion of released hours permanently, or at least offer temporary staff longer-term contracts, once an employee returns from maternity leave on reduced hours

scholarly journals Part-time training in psychiatry: what trainees want

1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 614-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina P. Routh
Keyword(s):  
Child Rearing ◽  
Junior Doctors ◽  
Women Doctors ◽  
Medical Graduates ◽  
The Past ◽  
Equal Share ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Part Time Work

The proportion of female medical graduates has steadily risen in the past decade. Although it may be argued that men should take on an equal share of the child-rearing and housekeeping roles of the housewife, there is evidence that women doctors are falling behind in their careers because of domestic pressures (Rhodes, 1990). Part-time work is perceived in theory as being a suitable option for women doctors with domestic commitments, but the number who choose this option in practice is surprisingly small. The following study sought to establish what demand there is for part-time training in psychiatry among junior doctors and whether what is on offer meets that demand.

Part-time Work for Women Doctors

BMJ ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 2 (5364) ◽  
pp. 1066-1066
Author(s):  
E. Ettlinger
Keyword(s):  
Women Doctors ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Part Time Work

scholarly journals Maternity Leave Duration and Full-time/Part-time Work Status Are Associated with US Mothers’ Ability to Meet Breastfeeding Intentions

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 416-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelsey R. Mirkovic ◽  
Cria G. Perrine ◽  
Kelley S. Scanlon ◽  
Laurence M. Grummer-Strawn
Keyword(s):  
Maternity Leave ◽  
Work Status ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Time Part ◽  
Part Time Work

scholarly journals Married women doctors as part-time trainees.

BMJ ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 3 (5984) ◽  
pp. 641-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Arie
Keyword(s):  
Married Women ◽  
Women Doctors ◽  
Part Time

Maternity Leave And Women's Mental Health

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Shibley Hyde ◽  
Marjorie H. Klein ◽  
Marilyn J. Essex ◽  
Roseanne Clark
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Maternity Leave ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
Longitudinal Design ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Work Status ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Part Time

The Wisconsin Maternity Leave and Health Study addresses an important policy issue, parental leave, by investigating the work status, maternity leave, and mental health of 570 women. In the longitudinal design, the women, all of whom were living with a husband or partner, were interviewed during the fifth month of pregnancy, 1 month postpartum, and 4 months postpartum. At 4 months postpartum, full-time workers, part-time workers, and homemakers did not differ in depression or anger, but full-time workers showed elevated anxiety compared with the other two groups. In multiple regression analyses, length of leave interacted significantly with marital concerns when predicting depression; women who took a short leave (6 weeks or less) and were high on marital concerns had the highest depression scores. Short maternity leave can be conceptualized as a risk factor that, when combined with other risk factors such as marital concerns, places women at greater risk for depression.

scholarly journals Survey of Postgraduate Education Available to Women Working Part-Time in Psychiatry

1978 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-8
Author(s):  
Dorothy Black
Keyword(s):  
Medical Profession ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Women Doctors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Medical Manpower

In the past five years increasing concern has been expressed within the medical profession at the wastage of medical manpower arising from the failure fully to utilize the skills of women doctors who are only able, because of domestic commitments, to work part-time.

scholarly journals Perceived inequity, professional and personal fulfillment by women intensivists in France

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Hauw-Berlemont ◽  
◽  
Cécile Aubron ◽  
Nadia Aissaoui ◽  
Laetitia Bodet-Contentin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Maternity Leave ◽  
Personal Accomplishment ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The Cost

Abstract Background The medical workforce has been feminized for the last two decades worldwide. Nonetheless, women remain under-represented among intensivists. We conducted a survey among French women intensivists to assess their professional and personal quality of life and their perception of potential gender discrimination at work. Methods We conducted an observational descriptive study by sending a survey, designed by the group FEMMIR (FEmmes Médecins en Médecine Intensive Réanimation), to women intensivists in France, using primarily the Société de Réanimation de Langue Française (SRLF) mailing list. The questionnaire was also available online between September 2019 and January 2020 and women intensivists were encouraged to answer through email reminders. It pertained to five main domains, including demographic characteristics, work position, workload and clinical/research activities, self-fulfillment scale, perceived discrimination at work and suggested measures to implement. Results Three hundred and seventy-one women responded to the questionnaire, among whom 16% had an academic position. Being a woman intensivist and pregnancy were both considered to increase difficulties in careers’ advancement by 31% and 73% of the respondents, respectively. Almost half of the respondents (46%) quoted their quality of life equal to or lower than 6 on a scale varying from 1 (very bad quality of life) to 10 (excellent quality of life). They were 52% to feel an imbalance between their personal and professional life at the cost of their personal life. Gender discrimination has been experienced by 55% of the respondents while 37% confided having already been subject of bullying or harassment. Opportunities to adjust their work timetable including part-time work, better considerations for pregnant women including increasing the number of intensivists and the systematic replacement during maternity leave, and the respect of the law regarding the paternity leave were suggested as key measures to enable better professional and personal accomplishment by women intensivists. Conclusion In this first large French survey in women intensivists, we pointed out issues felt by women intensivists that included an imbalance between professional and personal life, a perceived loss of opportunity due to the fact of being a woman, frequent reported bullying or harassment and a lack of consideration of the needs related to pregnancy and motherhood.

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