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The Diversity in Neurosurgery Committee (DC) of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) recognizes the challenges individuals face in parenthood with neurosurgery and wishes to address them in a white paper.
Vayssiere et al. will focus on the issues of family planning and neurosurgical practice during pregnancy in an itemized fashion based on an exhaustive literature search and will make recommendations to address the matters raised.
Potential solutions would be to further improve the work-family time ratio as well as improve working conditions in the hospital.
While many obstacles have been quoted in the literature about parenthood in medicine, and neurosurgery specifically, initiatives can and should be undertaken to ensure not only retention of colleagues but also to increase productivity and job satisfaction of those seeking to combine neurosurgery and family life, regardless of their sexual identity and orientation 1)