Elusive Equity Empathy and Empowerment

Dr. Pandora B. Angel was a practicing physician for thirty years. She spent twenty-three of those years as an emergency physician at a university medical center and an affiliated hospital. In Elusive Equity Empathy and Empowerment she shares the challenges she faced as a female emergency physician in what is still perceived as a male profession. Addressing the gender bias and inequality she experienced while striving for and achieving a career in medicine this memoir addresses workforce power and control double standards gender bias discrimination the boys' club harassment contrived narratives for predetermined goals retaliation disregard for objective data and misconceptions. Through thoughtful vignettes lessons and appendices this memoir explores the persistent culture of inequity in the workplace from Angel's perspective as a female physician in a male-dominated field. Teaching tools and lessons are provided at the end of each chapter to stimulate wider discussions of inequality harassment bias and discrimination that still occur.