Chapter 11: Betwixt and between.

This article focuses on a survey on discrimination against women general practitioners (GPs) occurs in general practice. A moral charge underpins these difficulties. Difference is not merely difference--it involves judgments about right and wrong difference. Some GPs feel that women and men should align themselves more clearly on one side of the line or the other. There has been an appropriate reaction against the polarization of the public-private division. Polemical writings apart, the empirical writing by GPs themselves on gender in general practice is almost exclusively quantitative. While surveys play an important role in mapping the dimensions, they pay comparatively little attention to GPs' local moral worlds. Taking a leaf from the more rounded contributions of social scientists, in this article the author offers a different perspective. Some women GPs who tried to juggle career and family responsibilities experienced no untoward difficulties negotiating part-time status and a position of respect from their partners.