Researching gender, careers, and inequalities in medicine/medical education : a timely endeavour / Maria Tsouroufli -- Medical knowledge, medical education, and the career choices of women doctors c.1860-1920 : an Edinburgh case study / Elaine Thomson -- Gender, mentoring and social capital in the National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland, UK / Saquifa B. Seraj, Maria Tsouroufli, Mohamed Branine -- Women and leadership in medicine and medical education : international perspectives / Judy McKimm ... [et al.] -- Drafting intersections in the career of female medical doctors / Heidi Siller, Margarethe Hochleitner -- Young specialists' career choices and work expectations / Elianne Riska, Leena-Maija Aaltonen, Erna Kentala -- Women doctors in France : a feminization that is mere window dressing? / Anne-Chantal Hardy -- imagining a future in the medical profession : gender and young Sardinians' narratives of a career in medicine / Valentina Cuzzocrea.

The terms gender, careers and inequalities were chosen to delineate the conceptual framework of this book - the second volume of a new series focussed on equality, diversity and inclusion issues. Each of the concepts adds to a different and unique dimension to the study of medicine and medical education. Gender allows for a reading of power and exclusion of women in medicine and medical education. Careers and inequalities draw attention to the multiplicity of factors that influence women's participation in the medical profession including the interconnectedness of gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexuality, creed and disability in the workplace. Scholars bring insights from across disciplines of social sciences, including sociology, medical anthropology, psychology, and human resources management and have been encouraged to provide cross-national and multi-dimensional insights through comparative analysis.

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