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A recent Editorial in The Lancet (Feb 10, p 513) promotes gender equity in science as both a moral and necessary imperative. A US national survey has identified science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) workplaces as “deeply misogynistic”. In the UK and Australia, schemes, such as the Athena SWAN Charter have also shown that STEM work places cannot be gender inclusive without institutional commitment to re moving unconscious bias. Medicine is one STEM discipline in which gender balance already exists at the undergraduate level; however, Janet Pope’s Comment in the same issue of The Lancet emphasised that this gender balance is not reflected at the leadership level.