Women: Against all odds

Show notes

Listen to Prof Mala Rao and Ekpemi Irune delve into issues on poverty, the climate crisis and the disproportionate impact both have on women; they discuss women as breadwinners; sexual violence as a weapon in conflict zones is highlighted; they explore the benefits of facilitating women into senior leadership positions including policy roles; on the absurdity of “meritocracy” and differential attainment in research.

Episode collaborators:

Professor Mala Rao - Professor of Primary Care and Public Health. Director of Ethnicity and Health Unit, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College, London. Past Adviser to NHSE Workforce Race Equality Strategy and Implementation Team

Miss Ekpemi Irune - Consultant Laryngology, Head & Neck Surgeon, Cambridge, UK. 

Founder of ACEIS UK

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Team Brief is the official podcast of the Academic Collaborative for Equality and Inclusivity in Surgery (ACEIS) UK

This maiden series is an ode to the International Women’s Day celebrations 2023. We remind ourselves of some of the progress made but we do not lose sight of the deficiencies and the devastating global impact of gender inequity

About ACEIS UK:

The Collaborative consists of a group of cross-specialty surgeons and expert advisers with a single interest: to highlight the true extent of the challenges of equality, inclusivity and their associated impacts in the surgical profession by leveraging data. Our role is to identify and report data from the frontlines of the surgical working environment; to provide an opportunity for individualised stories to be shared; to present all data to the surgical community without the burden of political or other influences in a transparent manner; to develop change strategies suitable for adoption in the workplace; to apprise other professional bodies and organisations with coherent data that can inform appropriate policies and procedures to tackle these challenges; to highlight positive and negative aspects of systemic workplace issues

Get in touch: To stay abreast of our activities as a think-tank, to share comments and/or ideas including collaboration opportunities then please contact us via our website www.ACEIS.uk or by email: admin@aceis.uk

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Created, Produced and Directed by Ekpemi Irune @ENTmimi