While much has been written about the Legault government’s health care reform, one aspect of Bill 2 that has been largely overlooked is how it negatively and disproportionately affects female doctors.

While men are increasingly taking on a more active parenting role, women remain the ones who experience pregnancy and child-bearing. Fundamental differences in gender roles and caring styles affect both the work of female physicians and the choices they must make.

“There are at least nine months before the child is born when productivity might be impaired,” Andrée Vincent, lead physician at a Montreal-based network of family doctors, told me. “If a female doctor is nauseous and struggling to see patients because she’s vomiting every 20 minutes, well that’s just biology. There’s nothing you

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