Gender inequality among medical, pharmaceutical and dental practitioners in French hospitals: Where have we been and where are we now?

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Women are under-represented in senior academic and hospital positions in many countries. The authors aim to assess the place and the evolution of all appointed female and male health practitioners' working in French public Hospitals.

Materials and methods

Data of this observational study were collected from the National Management Centre (Centre National de Gestion) from 2015 up to January 1, 2020. First, the authors described demographic characteristics and specialties of all appointed medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry doctors' working as Hospital Practitioners, Associate Professors, and Full Professors in French General and University-affiliated Hospitals in 2020. Then, they retrospectively reported the annual incidence of new entrance according to gender and

SUBMITTER: Le Boedec A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8270123 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature