Table 3.
Themes, categories and codes from the content analysis
| Number of comments in the categories as well as the relative proportions of comments in each category, women respective men (column in %) | Number (and percentage) of respondents who had comments in each category, women respective men | |||||
| Themes, categories and codes | Total N = 1 469 |
From women N = 565 |
From men N = 904 |
Total N = 243 |
Women N = 78 |
Men N = 165 |
| Understandings of 'gender' | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) |
| Differences | 394 (27) | 156 (28) | 238 (26) | 162 (67) | 53 (68) | 109 (66) |
| Behaviour | ||||||
| Disease | ||||||
| Inequity | 291 (20) | 175 (31) | 116 (13) | 115 (47) | 57 (73) | 62 (38) |
| Life conditions and experiences | ||||||
| Hierarchy and injustice | ||||||
| Problems connected with gender | ||||||
| Delicate situations | 123 (8) | 33 (6) | 90 (10) | 75 (31) | 26 (33) | 49 (30) |
| Embarrassing situations | ||||||
| Sexual attraction | ||||||
| Gendered expectations | 53 (4) | 35 (6) | 18 (2) | 48 (20) | 30 (38) | 18 (11) |
| Male norms | ||||||
| Women are caring | ||||||
| Lack of experiences | 17 (1) | 7 (1) | 10 (1) | 16 (7) | 6 (8) | 10 (6) |
| Approaches to gender | ||||||
| Avoidance | 288 (20) | 70 (12) | 218 (24) | 118 (49) | 35 (45) | 83 (50) |
| Minimize importance | ||||||
| Doctors are neutral | ||||||
| Not me – others | ||||||
| Simplification | 151 (10) | 50 (9) | 101 (11) | 83 (34) | 30 (38) | 53 (32) |
| Self-evident | ||||||
| A question of teaching women | ||||||
| Equity already achieved | ||||||
| Awareness | 124 (8) | 63 (11) | 61 (7) | 74 (30) | 34 (44) | 40 (24) |
| Social conditions make difference | ||||||
| Intersectional factors important | ||||||
| Lack of female role models | ||||||
| Gender as competence | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | 77 (5) | 24 (4) | 53 (6) | 57 (23) | 14 (18) | 43 (26) |
| 1518* | 613* | 905* | ||||
* Some comments concerned more than one category and thus the summary of the columns 1, 3 and 5 exceed N in table head.