This comment on Professor Fotaki’s Editorial agrees with her arguments that training health professionals in more compassionate, caring and ethically sound care will have little value unless the system in which they work changes. It argues that for system change to occur, senior management,...

Introduction -- Speaking as working women and working as speaking women -- Arguing with the phallus, or the materialization of the psyche -- Visualities and materialities: the performativity of the female -- Managerial suit or writing about the visual chastity belt -- Intersectionality,...