Blog N°5: GENDER ROLE IN HEALTH CARE

Ingresos 2006

Escuelas de la salud	Hombres	Mujeres	Total
Enfermería	13	72	85
Fonoaudiología	7	26	33
Kinesiología	10	22	32
Medicina	95	65	160
Nutrición	8	29	37
Obstetricia	13	64	77
Tecnología Médica	28	49	77
Terapia Ocupacional	4	32	36
Totales	178	359	537
Porcentajes	33,2 %	66,8%	100%

It shows that approximately two thirds of students entering schools of health professions are women. Although most successful women entering clear differences between genres, whether responsibilities, salaries, professional development, etc.

With respect to responsibilities in all area of health careers, are more equitable between men and women. However, in certain professions, such as obstetrics, women have greater social responsibility and there are not many men who are interested in this area is marked by maleness that still retains the Chilean society, where they say that this profession is working only for women and that is why midwifes are responsible for a large number of patients, most of whom are women.

Wage, we can say that in all areas of health, even in other professions, women earn less money for the same or even greater work performed.

Women face greater difficulties than men in finding employment, associated with these wage differentials. As in the races of men say they are kinesiology and medical technology, among others. Employers believe that a man would make that work better for strength and precision that is needed for these two races respectively. With regard to the types of patients, women prefer to be health professionals of the opposite sex because they feel that their treatment is very different and even better.

Despite these large differences in their professional development they become invalid, since both have similar skills and habilities they decided to study and have been educated the same way, and with the same degree of knowledge. Therefore, there should be no such gender differences and less on the health area, where the most important is to help people.