Quo Vadis Gender Politics in FP?

The article raises important issues about female gender equality that are long overdue. One has to wonder, however, if recommendations to empower female gender physicians are as important now as they would have been a few decades back. Current medical school admissions and FP residencies appear to be as predominantly female as they were predominantly male two generations ago. New academic faculty are already reflecting this. The authors, all eminent academic female role models themselves, are advocating ("redressing of identified imbalance") that to achieve equity they, and other female academics, need better access to opportunity than their male counterparts. This raises a moral conflict between equality and equity, that I find generally and, of course, as a junior male faculty member, personally troubling, and inadequately explored in the paper. Whatever the merits of the argument, and I on balance agree with them, perhaps the authors should have mentioned their conflict of interest in advocating it.