I currently work in the UK Medical Careers Research Group at Oxford University. [edit: this post isn't an official communication from our group!] To give a UK

I currently work in the UK Medical Careers Research Group at Oxford University. [edit: this post isn't an official communication from our group!] To give a UK perspective, what our research has found is that, in general, female doctors are only disadvantaged in their career (in terms of career progression and so on) when they have periods out for maternity leave and work part-time for childcare reasons. And then, they are only disadvantaged to a similar level as male doctors who took time out or work part-time for the same or different reasons. In medicine, in the UK at least, there is a lot greater gender parity than there is in the Tech industry (which being a programmer I also am part of). This conference looks really interesting, aside from the gender issues, and it's happening right here in Oxford. Its a shame I don't have funding to attend conferences, academia can be very fickle like that!