Analysis of the factors that lead medical women to not opt for surgical specialties
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1679-9836.v99i3p230-235Keywords:
Physicians, women/statistics & numerical data, Medicine, Woman/education, Medical women, Surgical specialtiesAbstract
Objective: To verify the probable reasons that lead medical women to not opt for surgical specialties. Methods: We evaluated the answers of 75 medical women, through an objective questionnaire composed of 15 questions about their choice to not go into surgical specialties. The data was then transformed into percentages and shown in charts and tables. Results: We observed that 45.3% of the medical women have already considered being a surgeon. The most limiting factor; 40% of the participants chose was on call hours. Besides that, we observed that 86.7% believe that it is possible to be a surgeon and institute a family. The characteristic most used to define a female surgeon was “strong”, by 72%. And only 12% of participants believe that there isn’t prejudgement by colleagues or patients about women surgeons. Conclusion: In addition to identifying the probable factors that limit women to opt for surgical specialties, we concluded that more studies like this one should be done, in order to review laboral issues (flexibility of turns, equal pays) and behaviors (prejudice, sexism).
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