Table 1.

Career destinations of the respondents of the cohort of UK qualifiers of 1988: percentages of all respondents (and numbers)

	Men (%)	Women (%)	Total (%)	Men (n)	Women (n)	Total (n)
Responders in medical employment
UK NHS :
General practicea	32.1	41.4	36.6	418	498	916
Hospital medical specialties	11.8	9.6	10.7	154	115	269
Surgical specialtiesa	13.2	2.6	8.1	172	31	203
Paediatrics	2.8	4.0	3.4	36	48	84
Accident and emergency	1.5	1.7	1.6	19	21	40
Obstetrics and gynaecology	2.0	2.2	2.1	26	27	53
Anaestheticsa	8.4	5.2	6.8	109	62	171
Radiology	2.7	2.0	2.4	35	24	59
Clinical oncologya	0.6	1.7	1.2	8	21	29
Pathology	2.2	1.6	1.9	28	19	47
Psychiatrya	5.1	8.7	6.9	67	105	172
Community healtha	0.2	2.0	1.1	3	24	27
Public health medicine	0.7	1.3	1.0	9	16	25
Other clinical specialties*	0.8	1.6	0.8	11	19	20
Total in the NHS	84.1	84.9	84.5	1095	1020	2115
UK medicine outside the NHS	7.8	5.9	6.9	102	71	173
Medicine abroad	7.3	5.1	6.2	95	61	156
Hospital practice†	4.8	2.7	3.8	62	33	95
General practice†	2.3	2.2	2.2	30	26	56
Total in medical employment	99.2	95.8	97.6	1292	1152	2444
Responders not in medical employment
Non-medical employment	0.5	0.5	0.5	6	6	12
Not in paid employment	0.3	3.7	1.9	4	44	48
All respondents‡	100.0	100.0	100.0	1302	1202	2504

Percentages may not add up exactly owing to rounding

^*Includes doctors known to be working in medicine but who did not state their specialty

^†Percentages do not add up to percentages for all those in medicine abroad because percentages for community medicine and public health medicine are excluded

^‡Seventeen respondents did not provide details of their employment and have been omitted from the table

^aMale–female differences in the specialty groups: For the 14 NHS specialty groups overall (χ²₁₂=159.4, p<0.001), ^a denotes the individual specialties that show significant male–female differences