Table 3.

Theme 1 quotations

Participant ID	Quote
HP3, W, NL	‘And so overall, I think it results in some inequity for women’s health services. Because you have a [Surgery] department that does not understand women’s health or the duality of obstetrics and gynecology, which is very masculine and male dominated department, trying to make decisions for us when we had previously been autonomous. We are our own department. Separate from Medicine and separate from Surgery and so now we are getting more of a paternalistic leadership from the Department of Surgery which has not previously been our, like, our boss.’
HP1, W, NL	‘…a predominant amount of men submitting papers with very minimal women represented. And I think within research we already have massive gender inequities… Amplified.’
HP4, W, NL	‘I am not sure if this is a product of COVID or not but I did notice and it might have just been a coincidence, but I did notice an increase of certain male clients that have been known to be a little bit, have a derogatory attitude towards women, I did notice an increase in those behaviours during COVID.’
HP4, W, NL	‘So, one of my clients who was maybe a little bit more secretive about his attitude towards women and maybe it, just not so overtly misogynistic prior to COVID. You know, during COVID was very dissatisfied with the, the level of care that I was providing, I guess… [he] assumed that a male co-worker who is, actually, like, below me. He assumed that this male co-worker was actually my manager and so, called him assuming that he was my manager and saying that he did not want to work with me anymore and wanted to be assigned a male case manager. And made a lot of derogatory remarks towards me and my practice…’

HP, health professional; NL, non-leadership role; W, woman.