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Table 3 Themes, categories and codes from the content analysis

From: Attitudes toward and experiences of gender issues among physician teachers: A survey study conducted at a university teaching hospital in Sweden

 

Number of comments in the categories as well as the relative proportions of comments in each category, women respective men (column in %)

Number (and percentage) of respondents who had comments in each category, women respective men

Themes, categories and codes

Total

N = 1 469

From women

N = 565

From men

N = 904

Total

N = 243

Women

N = 78

Men

N = 165

Understandings of 'gender'

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

Differences

394 (27)

156 (28)

238 (26)

162 (67)

53 (68)

109 (66)

   Behaviour

      

   Disease

      

Inequity

291 (20)

175 (31)

116 (13)

115 (47)

57 (73)

62 (38)

   Life conditions and experiences

      

   Hierarchy and injustice

      

Problems connected with gender

      

Delicate situations

123 (8)

33 (6)

90 (10)

75 (31)

26 (33)

49 (30)

   Embarrassing situations

      

   Sexual attraction

      

Gendered expectations

53 (4)

35 (6)

18 (2)

48 (20)

30 (38)

18 (11)

   Male norms

      

   Women are caring

      

Lack of experiences

17 (1)

7 (1)

10 (1)

16 (7)

6 (8)

10 (6)

Approaches to gender

      

Avoidance

288 (20)

70 (12)

218 (24)

118 (49)

35 (45)

83 (50)

   Minimize importance

      

   Doctors are neutral

      

   Not me – others

      

Simplification

151 (10)

50 (9)

101 (11)

83 (34)

30 (38)

53 (32)

   Self-evident

      

   A question of teaching women

      

   Equity already achieved

      

Awareness

124 (8)

63 (11)

61 (7)

74 (30)

34 (44)

40 (24)

   Social conditions make difference

      

   Intersectional factors important

      

   Lack of female role models

      

   Gender as competence

      

Miscellaneous

77 (5)

24 (4)

53 (6)

57 (23)

14 (18)

43 (26)

 

1518*

613*

905*

   
  1. * Some comments concerned more than one category and thus the summary of the columns 1, 3 and 5 exceed N in table head.