Gender

LloydsPharmacy reports 11 percentage point increase in gender pay gap for 2021/2022

The median hourly pay gap at LloydsPharmacy was found to be 14.7% in favour of men, with women's mean hourly pay 32.1% lower than men's.…

RPS gender pay gap increases by more than two percentage points in 2021

Although "disappointed", Paul Bennett, chief executive of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, has pointed out that the number of employees means that small changes in staffing can have a big impact on these data.…

RPS Museum online exhibition celebrates women in pharmacy

'Celebrating Women in Pharmacy' launched on International Women's Day and celebrates women throughout the history of pharmacy.…

Women to Watch 2020: what we did and why

In March of this year we launched a nationwide search to find women in the pharmacy profession who were achieving great things and deserved greater recognition.…

Outstanding work of 12 female pharmacy professionals celebrated in Women to Watch 2020 list

Twelve women have been selected for The Pharmaceutical Journal’s Women to Watch 2020 list, which celebrates brilliant, under-recognised female pharmacy professionals who are accomplishing great things across the sector.…

Female part-time pharmacists earn more than males, government figures show

Female part-time pharmacists, who work less than 30 hours per week, earn more than their male counterparts, data released by the Office for National Statistics have shown.…

Why we need to talk about sex and clinical trials

The under-representation of women in clinical trials is slowly being addressed, but we cannot move towards truly personalised healthcare unless we have an equal balance of the sexes in all new medicine trials.…

Transcending boundaries: the role of pharmacists in gender identity services

There has been a surge in demand for gender identity services in the UK over the past five years. Although the current role of pharmacists is limited, their potential contribution within a multidisciplinary team supporting transgender patients is beginning to emerge.…

We must not forget transgender patients’ physiology if we are to prescribe safely

Pharmacists should always be respectful of patients’ identity wishes, but biological differences between the sexes mean that conflating sex and gender could have serious implications for prescribing.…

Call to nominate women in pharmacy who deserve greater recognition for their work

A nationwide search for unrecognised women in pharmacy who are making a measurable difference to patient care and/or their colleagues begins today.…