Gender equity programmes in academic medicine: a realist evaluation approach to Athena SWAN processes.
Louise CaffreyDavid WyattNina FudgeHelena MattingleyCatherine WilliamsonChristopher McKevittPublished in: BMJ open (2016)
Gender equity programmes have the potential to address inequity. However, paradoxically, they can also unintentionally reproduce and reinforce gender inequity through their enactment. Potential programme impacts may be undermined by barriers to staff availing of career development and training initiatives, and by wider institutional practices, national policies and societal norms.