# Ep130: "The motherhood penalty"

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Podcast: [Pomegranate Health](https://stenobird.com/podcast/pomegranate-health-4653)
Published: 2025-05-29T05:00:00+00:00
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Despite filling more than half of places in Australian medical schools, women represent 45 per cent of all medical practitioners and just 36 per cent of specialists. Female representation dwindles further in many areas of clinical leadership, prompting what has been termed a “leaky pipeline”. It has been reported that women would progress at similar rates to men, and achieve similar remuneration, were it not for the time taken out from the profession to raise children. In this podcast we disc...

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