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The recent rise of the #MeToo movement has made the inequities and injustices faced by women in the workplace more visible in the mainstream media. In the academic medical community, this has translated into concerns about gender-based differences in areas such as hiring, pay and education. This introspection comes at a time when residency programmes are also transitioning from traditional time-based curricula, wherein residents rotated through a pre-set schedule, to competency-based curricula, wherein residents progress in training after being entrusted to perform discrete activities of practice. This shift from timebased to competency-based curricula necessitates much more resident assessment, including, more specifically, a significant increase in faculty member or rater-based assessment of authentic workplace performance.