‘We are still not getting to the top’: Anger as female GPs ignored in honours
A GP says the numbers show organised medicine is 'still thinking in a misogynist fashion'
The fact that no female GPs were recognised in the Australia Day honours shows that medicine is still a boys’ club, a former RDAA president says.
More than 50 doctors, including six GPs, were given Order of Australia awards on Sunday, in recognition of their service to medicine and their communities.
But questions are being asked after it emerged only eight doctors were women and there were no female GPs at all on the list.
“None of these people who get awards nominate themselves; they are usually nominated by organisations, and the organisations are thinking in a misogynist fashion basically,” said Dr Sue Page (pictured), a rural Queensland GP who was awarded an AM for her contributions to medicine in 2008.
