Table 1.
Men (%) | Women (%) | Total (%) | Men (n) | Women (n) | Total (n) | |
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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
Male–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