title: Midwifery and the LGBT midwife.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify, through searching the published literature, midwifery's attitudes to gay and lesbian midwives.
  
  
  METHODS
  A selective literature review.
  
  
  RESULTS
  UK-based material was sparse. Items on midwifery and nursing and medicine and on midwifery in non-UK countries were accessed. Issues emerging include the salience of 'coming out', of education, of culture, of forming relationships with childbearing women and the difficulty of authoritative research.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The midwifery literature on LGBT colleagues corresponds with that identified in nursing almost three decades ago. The lack of recognition of LGBT midwives carries personal and organisational implications.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Discriminatory attitudes may be difficult to resolve by education. Research on LGBT colleagues is fraught with difficulties. Various aspects of culture affect the acceptance of the colleague who is gay or lesbian. It is uncertain whether the midwife-woman relationship is less easily achieved by the gay or lesbian midwife.
authors.affiliation: School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, Scotland, UK. R.Mander@ed.ac.uk
authors.forename: Rosemary
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mander
authors.forename: Miranda
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Page
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001727:Bisexuality / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D008880:Midwifery / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D011287:Prejudice; D012933:Social Identification; D012938:Social Perception; D013240:Stereotyping; D006113:United Kingdom; D017132:Workplace