This article critically evaluates how highly qualified women veterinary surgeons make sense
of their constrained professional career progression in a context of postfeminism …

The structure of veterinary medicine is changing rapidly from that of traditional small
privately owned practices to one of corporate franchises, often positioned within retail …

Veterinary medicine has undergone dramatic, rapid feminization while in many ways
remaining gendered masculine. With women constituting approximately half of its …

Veterinary surgeons (vets) provide us with a fascinating platform to study anthropocentric
and zoocentric beliefs, which we argue are gendered in both their genesis and practice …

Surgery is a high‐status, distinctly embodied, profession, dominated by men and saturated
with masculine ideals of individual heroism, manual skill and detachment. In this study, we …

Since the establishment of Australia's first national vocational education and training (VET)
system, policy that centres women has diminished, to a present‐day national scenario in …

This article examines gendered career paths in two feminizing and highly qualified
professions. Quantitative data show that in medicine the profession is internally segregated …

It is widely reported that the veterinary profession is becoming increasingly female‐
dominated, but there are concerns that this is not represented in positions of leadership …

This paper examines discourses about medical careers through the lens of gender. The
supposed feminization of medicine has prompted much professional and public discourse …

The medical workforce in Australia is rapidly feminizing, with general practice (GP) seen as
an attractive career choice for female doctors looking for greater work flexibility. However …