Understanding the Value of Gender Equity in Healthcare and How to Pursue It

2020 ◽  
pp. 64-74
Author(s):  
Emma Adriana Gans
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Preventative Care ◽  
Leadership Qualities ◽  
Female Physicians ◽  
Double Burden ◽  
And Gender

Female and male physicians practice medicine differently. Female physicians engage in different communication styles, allocate more time to preventative care, and show different leadership qualities. Because gender diversity is still lacking in the top academic and clinical positions, medical organizations are not fully benefiting from these strengths. This chapter will identify three barriers that prevent women from advancing to these positions: the double burden syndrome, sexism and sexual harassment, and gender bias. This chapter will take a critical look at organizational culture and propose changes that can contribute to the pursuit of gender equity.

A Case Study of a Hospital Workplace Culture of Injustice for Women Physicians

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-36
Author(s):  
Darrell Norman Burrell ◽  
Anton Shufutinsky ◽  
Shanta Bland ◽  
Cherise M. Cole ◽  
Jorja B Wright ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ◽  
Female Physicians ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Medical Centers ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Survey Responses

Decades after the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued regulations surrounding sexual harassment, hospital medical centers still struggle to identify and implement policies and practices to proactively address and mitigate occurrences of sexual harassment and gender inequality. An organizational development intervention occurred in which all the female physicians completed a climate survey developed to evaluate the hospital's toxic corporate culture around equity and diversity. Survey responses highlight significant issues of concern around diversity and inclusion from the perspective of women in toxic workplace hospital settings, especially for female physicians.

scholarly journals Science Runs and the Debate Brakes: Somatic Gene-Editing as a New Tool for Gender-Specific Medicine in Alzheimer’s Disease

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Tozzo ◽  
Silvia Zullo ◽  
Luciana Caenazzo
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Gene Editing ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
Genetic Level ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Specific

Gender-specific medicine is a discipline that studies the influence of sex and gender on physiology, pathophysiology, and diseases. One example in light of how a genetic-based disease among other diseases, that impact on sex, can be represented by the risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. The question that comes into focus is whether gene-editing can represent a new line of investigation to be explored in the development of personalized, gender-specific medicine that guarantees gender equity in health policies. This article aims to discuss the relevance of adopting a gender-specific focus on gene-editing research, considered as a way of contributing to the advance of medicine’s understanding, treatment, and prevention of dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s disease. The development or improvement of cures could take advantage of the knowledge of the gender diversity in order to ascertain and develop differential interventions also at the genetic level between women and men, and this deserves special attention and deep ethical reflection.

Graduate Students' Perceptions of Ethnic and Gender Diversity

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Zarb ◽  
Ryan F. Birch ◽  
David Gleave ◽  
Winston Seegobin ◽  
Joel Perez
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
And Gender

Feminist Perspective in Shashi Deshpande's “That Long Silence”

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ahashan ◽  
Dr. Sapna Tiwari
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equity ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Key Aspects

Man has always tried  to determine  and tamper the image of woman and especially her identity is manipulated and orchestrated. Whenever a woman is spoken of, it is always in the relation to man; she is presented as a wife , mother, daughter and even as a lover but never as a woman  a human being- a separate entity. Her entire life is idealized and her fundamental rights and especially her behaviour is engineered by the adherents of patriarchal society. Commenting  on the Man-woman relationship in a marital bond Simone de Beauvoir wrote in her epoch-making book entitled The Second Sex(1949): "It has been said that marriage diminishes man,  which is often true , but almost always it annihilates women". Feminist movement advocates the equal rights and equal opportunities for women. The true spirit of feminism is into look at women and men as human beings. There should not be gender bias or discrimination in familial and social life. To secure gender justice and gender equity is the key aspects of feminist movement. In India, women writers have come forward to voice their feminist approach to life and the patriarchal family set up. They believe that the very notion of gender is not only biotic and biologic episode but it has a social construction.

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