Gender equality in emergency medicine: Ignorance isn't bliss
The concepts of discrimination and inequity based on gender, age, race and sexuality are issues that unfortunately remain prominent in Australia, New Zealand and across the globe. Gender equality is a broad topic spanning societal, political and industrial domains and is associated with a diverse range of behaviours and attitudes requiring attention. The United Nations HeForShe campaign is a powerful global initiative to promote the achievement of gender equality. Two of its core strategic pillars are 'acceleration of women's economic empowerment' and 'advancing women's political participation and leadership' Emergency medicine (EM) is a young specialty that prides itself on being progressive; however, these two pillars continue to require improvement within academic and clinical EM in Australasia. Although much of the dialogue is specific to female trainees and FACEMs, this editorial and the associated articles in this series will also explore the less publicised issues affecting our male EM workforce.
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