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Table 3 Specialty categories (consultants and specialists) breakdown by gender and citizenship

From: Women’s contribution to medicine in Bahrain: leadership and workforce

Specialty

Female number (%)

Male number (%)

Total = 1782

Bahraini

Non-Bahraini

Bahraini

Non-Bahraini

Internal Medicine (including all subspecialties)

124 (34.1%)

240 (65.9%)

364

50 (13.7%)

74 (20.4%)

89 (24.4%)

151 (41.5%)

Family medicine

199 (75.7%)

64 (24.3%)

263

194 (73.7%)

5 (2%)

55 (20.9%)

9 (3.4%)

Surgery (including all surgical subspecialties)

67 (19.1%)

285 (80.9%)

352

46 (13%)

21 (6.1%)

122 (34.6%)

163 (46.3%)

Orthopaedics

5 (5.9%)

80 (94.1%)

85

2 (2.3%)

3 (3.6%)

27 (31.7%)

53 (62.4%)

Obstetrics and gynaecology

123 (87.9%)

17 (12.1%)

140

50 (35.7%)

73 (52.2%)

4 (2.8%)

13 (9.3%)

Anaesthesia

35 (26.8%)

96 (73.2%)

131

6 (4.5%)

29 (22.3%)

12 (9.1%)

84 (64.1%)

Radiology

39 (41.1%)

56 (58.9%)

95

13 (13.6%)

26 (27.5%)

10 (10.5%)

46 (48.4%)

Emergency medicine

8 (24.3%)

25 (75.7%)

33

7 (21.2%)

1 (3.1%)

13 (39.3%)

12 (36.4%)

Psychiatry

21 (43.8%)

27 (56.2%)

48

15 (31.2%)

6 (12.6%)

20 (41.6%)

7 (14.6%)

Paediatrics

76 (43.2%)

100 (56.8%)

176

47 (26.7%)

29 (16.5%)

43 (24.4%)

57 (32.4%)

ICU

0 (0%)

14 (100%)

14

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

1 (7.1%)

13 (92.9%)

Oncology

8 (27.6%)

21 (72.4%)

29

5 (17.2%)

3 (10.4%)

6 (20.6%)

15 (51.8%)

Laboratory medicine

30 (57.7%)

22 (42.3%)

52

13 (25%)

17 (32.7%)

5 (9.6%)

17 (32.7%)