Identifying the barriers to female leadership in Paramedicine

Paige Mason

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.32378/ijp.v2i1.55

Abstract

The main message is clear: women are not making it to the top in any profession, anywhere in the world, and the field of prehospital and academic medicine is not immune. Whether in the public or private sphere, from the highest levels of government decision-making to common households, women continue to be denied equal opportunity with men

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gender equality; leadership; women; bias; paramedic

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.32378/ijp.v2i1.55

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