Some barriers preventing women from entering the field:
Quinlan notes that, among surgeons, men are more likely than women to have spouses who do not work. Women are more likely to cite work-life balance as a reason for not entering the field. So he recommends making surgery a more livable discipline “” a change that would require a profound cultural transformation. “Sharing patients “¦ will need to be practiced more effectively,” he writes. “Competition among partners to do 1 more case or write 1 more paper needs to become obsolete.”
