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Abstract

Women are overall underrepresented in high-level leadership positions across organizations, particularly in the fields of healthcare, medical imaging, and oncology, despite the majority of the workforce in these industries being female. Women leaders often remain in these roles for shorter times, despite evidence documenting their value in increasing team wellbeing, productivity and collaboration and supporting organizational integrity, sustainability, diversity and inclusion. The reasons are complex, but often due to a lack of ongoing support or poor local culture. There is an urgent need to harness the potential of female leadership, not only to leverage equity and diversity, but mainly to solve the complex healthcare challenges of our diverse society now and in the future. Customized training and mentoring, clearer career pathways, flexible work, workplace adaptations and male allyship are key to raising, nurturing and supporting female leaders in the long term.

Publication Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© The Author(s) 2026. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Institute of Radiology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Publisher Keywords:	leadership, women, medical imaging, oncology, diversity, inclusion, collaboration, integrity, sustainability
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Departments:	School of Health & Medical Sciences School of Health & Medical Sciences > Department of Allied Health
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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