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We share survivor stories of sexism, harassment, and sexual assault in the healthcare workforce.

We are campaigning to end this culture.

Our report Surviving Healthcare: Sexism and Sexual Violence in the Healthcare Workforce is now live.

The campaign

Sexism, sexual harassment, and sexual assault are commonplace in the healthcare workforce. A 2021 survey from the BMA (PDF; opens in a new tab/window) reported 91% of women doctors had experienced sexism in the last 2 years and 47% felt they had been treated less favourably due to their gender.

We launched Surviving in Scrubs to tackle this problem, giving a voice to women and non-binary survivors in healthcare to raise awareness; and to end sexism, sexual harassment, and sexual assault in healthcare.

  • 91% of women doctors had experienced sexism in the last two years

  • 60% of nursing staff said they had experienced sexual harassment at work.

  • 56% of women doctors received unwanted verbal comments relating to their gender in the last two years

Source: BMA 2021 Viewpoint Survey (PDF; opens in new tab/window)

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The Times – Female doctors expose sexism and rape threats on the wards

[Surviving in Scrubs] want the General Medical Council (GMC), which regulates doctors, to explicitly condemn sexist behaviour, claiming that advice to simply “treat colleagues fairly and with respect” has not had the desired effect.

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Times Radio – Our co-founder Chelcie Jewitt spoke to Mariella Frostrup

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