Table 3.

Qualitative thematic summary of experience of harassment and experience of humiliating comments

	Qualitative themes (from free text responses)
Gender bias	General sexist behaviour and comments Inappropriate sexual comments “risk of pregnancy”…”rota gaps” Menstrual references to explain behaviour “this procedure needs a strong man” “the girl”, “good girl”, “not bad for a girl” “too….” – “ambitious, blond, emotional, difficult”
Sexual orientation/gender identity	Homophobic comments Use of derogatory terms Insinuation of HIV + status “not a real man”, “not manly enough”
Race/religion	General racist comments Racist “jokes” “dirty”, “poor”, “all the same” Anti-Islamic/terrorist characterisations Expected to perform lower resulting in less operative opportunity