The impact of micro gender biases on women's careers: the case of surgery

该项目旨在调查微小的、累积的性别偏见如何影响女性在外科手术中的职业道路和进步，并对相关相似的职业产生影响。女性外科医生在子专业的选择上表现出性别差异，相对于男性来说，她们的薪酬差距很大，而且不太可能参与创新。该项目将使用认知不公正和道德聚合的哲学理论来提供理解工作场所性别歧视的新方法，并使用定性方法来测试它们在外科手术中的适用性。它将为女性在外科和类似职业中职业发展的无形障碍贡献新的知识，并为女权主义认识论和道德理论做出理论贡献。

This project aims to investigate how small, cumulative gender biases affect women's career paths and progression in surgery, with implications for relevantly similar careers. Women surgeons show gendered patterns of subspecialty selection, experience a pay gap relative to men, and are less likely to be involved in innovation. The project will use philosophical theories of epistemic injustice and moral aggregation to provide new ways of understanding workplace gender discrimination, and qualitative methods to test their applicability in surgery. It will contribute new knowledge about invisible barriers to women’s career progression in surgery and similar careers, and make theoretical contributions to feminist epistemology and moral theory.