This week we are joined by Dr Susan Tager, Chief Executive Officer of the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre. We highlight the tremendous commitment individuals undertake to become medical specialists and the resources that are invested to realise these ambitions. We examine the evolutionary nature of women’s career paths to adjust to various lifestage changes they encounter, for instance pregnancy and child rearing, and the importance for women to renegotiate their terms of office to satisfy their professional and personal needs. We also consider the perspective of gender differences as strengths, which should be leveraged to foster work environments that are more conducive to women; and much more…

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