Women in the health profession: between equality and inequalities
Keywords:
gender, hospitals, organizations, inequalities, professional career
Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the obstacles that female doctors should fight along their career. We affirm that the process of feminization of professions like Medicine does not result in an improvement for women professional careers. We also affirm that leadership positions are not distributed proportionately between men and women. The increase of women among Medicine students, residents and doctors is not accompanied by a proportional growth of women in management and leadership positions in hospitals, but there is a low representation of women in top positions. We also point that medical practice is not unrelated to gender discrimination existing in our society but, unlike the widespread view, is a reflectionFormat
Crossmark
Published
2012-10-08
How to Cite
Pastor Gosálbez, M. I., Belzunegui Eraso, Á., & Pontón Merino, P. (2012). Women in the health profession: between equality and inequalities. Cuadernos de Relaciones Laborales, 30(2), 497-518. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_CRLA.2012.v30.n2.40210
Section
Miscelaneus
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