According to United Nations, the field of Science along with gender equality are vital to the world for achieving sustainable development goals, and in recent years much has been done to help inspire women and girls to study and work in scientific fields. But women continue to be excluded from participating fully. Less than 30% of the world’s researchers are women and this under-representation occurs in every region in the world. Women in STEM fields publish less and usually, the female researchers especially in the field of healthcare are often not well acknowledged for their research as compared to their counterparts. Gender equity is still a challenge across various labor markets and health market is also not an exception as well. Physicians, nurses, and pharmacists, among many other professionals are no exception to the global trends of gender inequity at workplace. Despite the increased influx of women as health professionals, still horizontal and vertical occupational gender inequities exist.
Gender equity and women’s empowerment have been set as prime goals by the United Nations for the 2030 global agenda for sustainable development. Although progress has been made towards achieving these goals and women participation in the workforce has been growing rapidly over the course of time but still women occupy less than one third leadership and management positions. Inadequate support for women at the workplace result in work–life imbalance and affect family responsibilities, while stereotyping and inequity lead to stress, low life satisfaction and less productivity. Low life satisfaction affects overall performance of an individual both personally and professionally. Hence, implementing strategies like less working hours, flexible timing and part-time work from home might improve motivation at the workplace, which in turn could strengthen and support gender equity across healthcare organizations.