A new Macquarie University study has found that female surgeons in Australia continue to suffer gender bias on almost every measure including pay, workload and workplace conditions.

The study attributes much of this disadvantage to small and subtle patterns of harmful behaviours that are difficult to detect or change.

The research, conducted by Dr Katrina Hutchison from Macquarie’s Department of Philosophy and published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, discovered that gender bias against female surgeons is so ingrained within the Australian medical profession that many women working in the field are unaware of the injustice of it or are quietly accepting it as part of the job.

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