‘Feminization’ of physician workforce in Bangladesh, underlying factors and implications for health system: Insights from a mixed-methods study

• Puspita Hossain ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Puspita Hossain, Rajat Das Gupta

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Rajat Das Gupta ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Puspita Hossain, Rajat Das Gupta

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rajat89.dasgupta@gmail.com

  Affiliation BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7680-676X

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• Phyoe YarZar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University Research Co., LLC, Yangon, Myanmar

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• Mohamed Salieu Jalloh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation eHealth Africa, Freetown, Sierra Leone

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• Nishat Tasnim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation WAVE Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Ayesha Afrin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Nahitun Naher,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Md. Tarek Hossain,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Systems and Population Studies Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Taufique Joarder,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation FHI 360, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3299-2628

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• Syed Masud Ahmed

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5032-7181

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