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Gender disparity persist in medicine despite its advancements

Addressing gender disparity requires a lot of support, not only from women who need to lead themselves, but men also need to change the culture and support it. By providing them with comfortable conditions, such as milking, parenting and maternity leave, women are not underestimated.

In the medical profession, especially in developing countries, we often find more men. They hold important positions and become decision-makers. As women, in almost all departments, especially in the fields of surgery and anaesthesia they face gender disparity.

 Women are often seen as inexperienced, overly emotional and bossy, especially young women. They don’t have any background rights. Unlike when studied health systems in developed countries, almost all managers in this sector are not women. They can become role models and role models for young women and make them believe that they are capable and worthy of leadership roles. Women have fewer leadership roles in organized medicine and science.

In our profession, September is celebrated as Women’s Medicine Month, and we must take this opportunity to measure our progress in medicine and how far we are from it. Many are honoured and a woman to be the third woman in a row to become the chairperson of the AMA. This is a milestone for our organization and organized medicine.

The theme of this year’s Women’s Health Month is to promote justice and create change. The recent winners of the American Medical Association’s Joan F. Jambalvo Foundation Research Fellowship for the Advancement of Women exemplified this theme. Your work will help create opportunities for researchers to showcase their research and create a virtual online negotiation seminar for female doctors and students to bridge the gender gap in wages, positions, and benefits. This is the best time for us to think about it. Pervasive inequality and its impact on the health of working parents. 

Recognizing the obstacles faced by doctors is the first step in overcoming these obstacles and accelerating the realization of true gender equality in organized medicine. Social bias or more acceptable factors, such as different patient preferences or different expected results. 

Investigate the degree of relevance of gender differences in treatment: the patient’s health status, the patient’s role responsibilities, the patient’s pain behaviour and medical characteristics. Multivariate logistic regression is used to estimate the likelihood of medically prescribed activity restrictions for men and women. Examine the absolute and relative influence of the patient and patient and doctor factors on the observed treatment differences.

The results showed that compared with men with similar characteristics, patients were 3.6 times more likely to engage in activity restriction. Gender differences in disease behaviour and gender bias between clinicians seem to contribute to the observed differences. Female patients show more pain behaviours than men, and this behaviour increases the tendency of doctors to prescribe activity restrictions.

The obstacles women doctors face are recognised and it is the first step in overcoming them—and hopefully, the arrival of true gender equality in organized medicine is hastened faster in near future.

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