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Introduction Miss Portwood, Medical Student In 2021, doctors identifying as women represented 16% of consultants and 29% of cardiology trainees in the UK.1 While the number of women training in cardiology has increased from 17% since 2003,2 cardiology remains an outlier among medical specialties. Women have outnumbered men entering medical school since 1997,3 39% of medical consultants are women, and gender representation in trainees of most other medical specialties is approaching parity.1 It has been proposed that cardiology will ‘catch up’ with other specialties, however, only 27% of female medical graduates declared an interest in car