Prevalence of Bullying, Discrimination, and Harassment Among Women in Cardiology: A Snapshot Australasian Survey.
Nearly 9 in 10 surveyed women in cardiology reported bullying, discrimination, or harassment
Prevalence of Bullying, Discrimination, and Harassment Among Women in Cardiology: A Snapshot Australasian Survey.
Bullying, discrimination, and harassment (BDH) are prevalent in medicine and are more commonly experienced by women.
The Australia New Zealand Women in Cardiology (WIC) working group sought to assess the current prevalence of BDH among females in cardiology through a snapshot survey.
The survey was developed by 2 women cardiologists and distributed to members of the WIC email list (180 members).
The survey was completed by 105 individuals (58.33% completion rate).
Majority (75.2%) of these behaviors were displayed by cardiology consultants.
Of the respondents, 29.5% did not know how to react to the behavior and 17.1% reported the behavior higher up but no action was taken.
Nearly half (47.6%) of the respondents were worried about the effect of reporting on day-to-day work or training.
BDH was noted to be highly prevalent from this snapshot survey of women in cardiology.
Urgent measures are required to mitigate and abolish these negative behaviors, a process that requires significant changes from all stakeholders involved in cardiology workplaces.