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