The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 No 7456 p706
16 June 2007

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Women in pharmacy

Women pharmacists are extremely fortunate compared with others

From Mr B. Shooter, MRPharmS

I was interested to read the excellent paper by Wendy Gidman and colleagues exploring female community pharmacist’ views on their remuneration (PJ, 2 June, p645).

Only one of the interviewees (R8) mentioned that “I sort of benefited from doing some management and that wasn’t taken away from me”. Female pharmacists are indeed extremely fortunate that when they come to work on a part-time basis they are often the manager in charge of the pharmacy for the period that they are on duty, and their rates of pay should be no different to their full-time or male colleagues.

Compare this situation with that of my daughter and daughters-in-law who had managerial positions with a national newspaper, a supermarket chain and a publishing house before starting their families. On return from maternity leave they were offered jobs at a much lower grade although at the same rate of pay as before their career breaks. All three had to change jobs in order to meet both their family commitments and career aspirations.

Barry Shooter
Romford, Essex

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