CHICAGO — For women physicians, the workday often extends beyond the clinic, with unseen tasks at work and home adding to the demands of practicing medicine, according to a presenter at the Women in Medicine Summit.
These unseen tasks, which range from additional professional expectations, such as mentoring and responding to patient messages, to family responsibilities, such as coordinating care for children and running a household, are known as “invisible work,” and may be impacting women’s roles in medicine, according to Gretchen Rickards, MD, MPH, PCC, internal medicine physician at