Blog: 5

Hello! In this occasion I will talk about the role of gender in health care. To start, I think where fewer gender differences at work is in the area of health, all share the same level of responsibility. Both men and women are responsible in the same way the health care of patients.

If we talk about salary, I think there are no gender differences, probably in the Administrative already. But among the health professionals there are not. I do believe that salaries are going according to studies and role within the health center.

The same goes when talking about the kind of patients, I think there aren’t significant differences in general; but the kind of patients between doctors if it depends on the specialty. For example, men prefer to be checked by male urologists; however, many women prefer to be checked by female gynaecologist. On the other hand, men prefer to be checked by men and women prefer to be checked by women as something that usually happens. On that side if there are gender differences.

Where there are gender differences between men and women in the area of health is in relation to professional development, For example, there are medical specialties that require a long time, so we see that there are more men than women because women exercise that should take care of the children many times, and by studying the number of years often do not choose this.

Finally there are professions in the health area that are focused more to women, for example, nurses or midwifery. The number of men studying is very low.

Personally, I prefer to be checked by a female nurse or midwife.