What could surgery do to attract more women to the profession
| Flexible training and career options (eg, part time, less than full time) | 42% (n=34) |
| Project a less masculine image/address this | 25% (n=20) |
| Improve the work/life balance | 18% (n=15) |
| More female mentors/role models | 18% (n=15) |
| More team/collaborative approaches | 7% (n=6) |
| Financial support of trainees | 6% (n=5) |
| Remove the perception of the need for PhDs/to be an academic | 3% (n=3) |
| Sessional work | 2% (n=2) |
| More positions in larger cities | 2% (n=2) |
| Less overbooking | 1% (n=2) |
| More surgical training for medical students | 1% (n=1) |
| Educate surgeons in unconscious bias | 1% (n=1) |
| Nothing | 3% (n=3) |
| Do not know/not sure | 5% (n=5) |
| Respondent skipped question | 6% (n=5) |