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abstract: 'Objectives: To investigate the difficulties Japanese female doctors face
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in continuing professional practice.
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Design: A qualitative study using the Kawakita Jiro method.
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Setting: A survey conducted in 2011 of 13 private Japanese medical
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school alumni associations.
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Participants: 359 female doctors.
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Primary outcome measures: Barriers of balancing work and gender role.
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Results: The female doctors reported that professional practice was a
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struggle with long working hours due to a current shortage of doctors in
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Japan. There was also a severe shortage of childcare facilities in the
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workplace. Some women appeared to have low confidence in balancing the
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physician''s job and personal life, resulting in low levels of
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professional pursuit. There appeared to be two types of stereotypical
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gender roles, including one expected from society, stating that ``child
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rearing is a woman''s job{''''}, and the other perceived by the women
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themselves, that some women had a very strong desire to raise their own
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children. Male doctors and some female doctors who were single or older
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were perceived to be less enthusiastic about supporting women who worked
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while raising children because these coworkers feared that they would
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have to perform additional work as a result of the women taking long
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periods of leave.
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Conclusions: Important factors identified for promoting the continuation
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of professional practice among female doctors in Japan were the need to
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improve working conditions, including cutting back on long working
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hours, a solution to the shortage of nurseries, a need for the
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introduction of educational interventions to clarify professional
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responsibilities, and redefinition of the gender division of labour for
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male and female doctors. In addition, we identified a need to modernise
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current employment practices by introducing temporary posts to cover
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maternity leave and introducing flexible working hours during specialist
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training, thus supporting and encouraging more women to continue their
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medical careers.'
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affiliation: 'Nomura, K (Corresponding Author), Teikyo Univ, Sch Med, Dept Hyg \&
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Publ Hlth, Tokyo 173, Japan.
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Nomura, Kyoko, Teikyo Univ, Sch Med, Dept Hyg \& Publ Hlth, Tokyo 173, Japan.
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Yamazaki, Yuka, Juntendo Univ, Sch Med, Dept Publ Hlth, Tokyo 113, Japan.
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Gruppen, Larry D., Univ Michigan, Sch Med, Dept Med Educ, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA.
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Horie, Saki; Takeuchi, Masumi, Support Ctr Women Phys \& Researchers, Dept Teikyo,
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Tokyo, Japan.
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Illing, Jan, Univ Durham, Sch Med Pharm \& Hlth, Dept Ctr Med Educ Res, Durham,
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England.'
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article-number: e005845
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author: Nomura, Kyoko and Yamazaki, Yuka and Gruppen, Larry D. and Horie, Saki and
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Takeuchi, Masumi and Illing, Jan
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author-email: kyoko@med.teikyo-u.ac.jp
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author_list:
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- family: Nomura
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given: Kyoko
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- family: Yamazaki
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given: Yuka
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- family: Gruppen
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given: Larry D.
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- family: Horie
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given: Saki
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- family: Takeuchi
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given: Masumi
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- family: Illing
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given: Jan
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005845
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files: []
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issn: 2044-6055
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journal: BMJ OPEN
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keywords-plus: GENDER; WOMEN; PHYSICIANS; CONFIDENCE; OBSTACLES; WORK; TIME
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language: English
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number: '3'
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number-of-cited-references: '22'
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orcid-numbers: Illing, Jan/0000-0001-6218-9775
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papis_id: c4946ad49553d9c9ea74a2626d771495
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ref: Nomura2015difficultyprofession
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times-cited: '41'
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title: 'The difficulty of professional continuation among female doctors in Japan:
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a qualitative study of alumnae of 13 medical schools in Japan'
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type: Article
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unique-id: WOS:000363458200007
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usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
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usage-count-since-2013: '10'
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volume: '5'
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web-of-science-categories: Medicine, General \& Internal
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year: '2015'
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