For women in the profession
Women in chiropractic: practice, family and everything in between
I’m a chiropractor, a mother and a practice owner, and I’m Secretary of the board of Women Chiropractors. I know from experience how much women in this profession are holding at once, and why a practice has to fit the life around it, not the other way round.
Women Chiropractors
On the board of Women Chiropractors.
In January 2026 I joined the board of Women Chiropractors, the international non-profit for women in the profession, and in July I was elected Secretary of the board. Both are on the organisation’s own site: Women Chiropractors’ new board members announcement and its 2026 executive leadership announcement.
I’m also a member of its Speakers Council, and on 24/09/2026 its speakers page listed me as its only UK-based speaker.
The views on this site are my own, not the organisation’s.
The numbers
What percentage of chiropractors are female?
In the UK, about half: 48.3% of the chiropractors on the General Chiropractic Council’s register in 2025 reported their gender as female. In the USA the share is lower, at 31.1% of employed chiropractors in 2025. The two figures measure different things, a regulator’s register and a national workforce survey, so read them as a picture of each country rather than a like-for-like comparison.
- UK
- 48.3% of the 4,041 chiropractors on the register in 2025 reported their gender as female, 48.4% as male and 3.4% preferred not to say. Source: General Chiropractic Council (the UK’s regulator for chiropractors), The Register Annual Report 2025, on gcc-uk.org (PDF).
- USA
- 31.1% of the 66,000 people employed as chiropractors in 2025 were women (annual average). Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, Employed people by detailed occupation, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, 2025, on bls.gov.
- Sources checked
- 24/09/2026
My own chapters
The juggle is real.
Motherhood and practice ownership
Combining motherhood with practice and business ownership brought me periods of overwhelm and burnout.
Perimenopause
Later, perimenopause brought another significant chapter, one that made me rethink my capacity, my priorities and how I wanted to work.
Ambition and a life outside work
Many women in practice are balancing ownership, family, ambition and a life outside work at the same time. Wanting more from your practice and more from your life are not opposites.
Designing for the chapter you’re in
The practice that works beautifully in one chapter of life may need to look very different in the next. That’s why I don’t believe in one definition of success, and why my mentoring for chiropractors starts with what you want from this chapter.
Speaking
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Women in chiropractic
A talk on practice ownership, family, ambition and a life outside work, and on designing a practice that holds them together. For associations, conferences and podcasts. Jo’s talks