Prof. IHAB YOUNIS

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IS MEDICINE FEMINIZING?

Benha Faculty of MedicineStudents Gender Ratio

2008-2009

60%

40%

Percentage of Women Doctors USA

5

10

15

20

25

30

1970 1980 1990 2000 2006 2010

7.6%11.6%

16.9%

24%

27.8%

30%

Physician Characteristics and Distribution in the U.S., 2008 Edition and prior editions. American Medical Association.

Egyptian Doctors by Gender

70.5%

29.5%

http://www.msrintranet.capmas.gov

عام تعداد للنوع طبقا والخاص والعام الحكومي القطاع بمستشفيات االطباء 2006عدد

Iraq and Saudia : 40%

Israel : >50% of doctors < 45 years

Malaysia : 60% of medical students

Women Doctors:

Middle East

& Asia

http://www.arabs48.com/display.x?cid=16&sid=66&id=57262&ar=

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-160808653.html Myint & Tun, Int. Med J Vol. 7 No 1 June 2008

Europe & N. America

• In Britain over 60 % of new doctors are women

• In Canada 60% of medical students are women

• In Russia, medicine is an almost entirely

female profession

Block WD.Sex ratio for medical residencies, CMAJ, May 9, 2006; 174 (10). doi:10.1503

IS MEDICINE FEMINIZING?

YES

IS

DERMATOLOGY FEMINIZING?

Benha Dermatology Dept.

85%

Ass. Lecturers

40%

60%

15%

85%

Professors

Kasr Al-Ainy Dermatol. Dpt.

73%

27%

Professors Ass.Lect

84%

16%

Ain-Shams Dermatology Dept

1962 2002

12%

48%

Postgraduate Students Benha Dermatol. Dept.

78%

22%

Female students Male students

%Women Dermatologists US of A

62%

38%

Men WomenJAMA, September 6, 2006, Vol 296,No.9,pages 1154-1163. Graduate Medical Education 2005-2006.

YES Dermatology is Feminizing

Good News or Bad

News?

A BRIGHT SIDE&

A DARK SIDE

THE BRIGHT SIDE

1. Women

Dermatologists

are more tender

2. Women Dermatologists are More Talkative

3-Women

Dermatologists

are

More Patient

4.Female patients Prefer

To be Seen by Women

Dermatologists*

_____________________*Unless it is something serious

5. Male

Dermatologists

Will Be Rare Experts

The Other Side

1.Commitment To Family

Marriage and having children:

• Hinders women’s commitment to work

• They have the reverse effect on men

Heru,Pinc-collar medicine,Gender Issues, 2005

Women

Dermatologists

Prefer Shorter

Working

Hours To Find

More Time

For The Family

If they had to choose again, 31% of US women doctors might not choose medicine

Frank, E., & Dingle, A.D. 1999.Am J Psychiat, 156(12): 1887-94.

2. Harassment

Requests for genital examinations by

patients who had no physical findings

and displays of erections Phillips SP, Schneider MS. N Engl J Med 1993;329:1936-1939.

77 % of the female doctors in Canada

3.Andrology Patients Will Have Difficulties!

4. Other Concerns

Professor Carole BlackHead of The

Royal College of Physicians

As medicine becomes increasingly perceived as the ‘work of women,’ it will be accordingly devalued: Lookat nurses and teachers

The Independent, Aug 2, 2004

• "The women admitted to medical school do well, they work well and they graduate well. The distinctions go to the women. But then, as the years go on, they start to make choices to balance their family and their lifestyle"

• "In medicine, they choose to go into the specialties of dermatology, geriatrics and palliative care - not cardiology and gastroenterology where they are going to be required to work long hours"

• "If you can't make it possible for women to participate in everything - doing research, attending committees, influencing the Department of Health - the profession will lose its influence “

• “The issue is sensitive and I could raise it only because I’m a woman“

How ISeeIt

Dermatology should be Separated from Andrology

The Best Students Are Women +

Their Choice Is Dermatology =

The Scientific Standard of Dermatologists Will Rise

If Women Dermatologists Became A Sweeping Majority, Treating Their Male Colleagues Will Be

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