Britain’s biggest doctors’ union is an “old boys’ club” in which female staff are regularly demeaned, patronised and sexually harassed, an investigation has concluded.
The British Medical Association apologised yesterday after a report said that women at the trade union were undervalued and ignored.
“Silly girls”, “little ladies” and “wee lassies” were terms men were found to have used to describe their colleagues, in an investigation whose findings were described as “appalling” by the organisation’s own leaders.
Chaand Nagpaul, chairman of the council of the BMA, which represents 70 per cent of doctors, said: “I am truly appalled to learn that members and staff have been subjected to sexism and sexual harassment and the behaviours described in this report. These behaviours have no place within