2024-03-08 13:22:11
The representation of women in leadership positions in Spanish medicine has improved slightly in the healthcare field and in scientific-professional representation, however, they are still underrepresented with respect to the proportion of women that make up the medical group who can choose to such leadership positions. This is reflected in the first comparative analysis of the observatory ‘Women in Medicine in Spain (WOMEDS)’, promoted by the foundation of the Federation of Spanish Medical Scientific Associations (FACME). Based on the updating of the indicators with data from 2022 and on the occasion of Women’s Day, WOMEDS has prepared three comparative graphs that show the evolution of the representation of women in leadership positions corresponding to three areas of the medical profession: healthcare, scientific-professional representation and academic career.
Increase in scientific societies
The greatest increase in the representation of women in leadership positions in Spanish medicine has occurred in scientific-medical societies. In 2022, among the FACME SSCCs that responded to the survey, only twelve had a female president, although this number is higher than in previous years in which the best data only showed 7 women at the head of SSCC in 2011.9. “These data highlight the enormous room for improvement and the need to continue working to visualize the gender gap and the excessive slowness in reaching leadership positions in a profession as feminized as Medicine,” explains Pilar Garrido López, former president of FACME and one of the promoters of the WOMEDS project.
In the public care field, in those Autonomous Communities (CCAA) that have provided their data, there has been a slight improvement in the proportion of female heads of service, where Women have gone from representing 29 percent to 33 percent of the total, although with marked differences according to Autonomous Communities (from 26 percent Galicia; to 42 percent Castilla y León). 57.46 percent of the doctors who worked in public health centers in the regions that have provided their data are women.
Bullish trend
This slight upward trend, but with room for improvement, is also observed in the Women Ratio (WR). This indicator adjusts the proportion of women in leadership positions to the proportion of women in the group under study, with values less than 1 being an indicator of the gender gap. Specific, When analyzing service headquarters in the public sphere, the WR for the whole of Spain stands at 0.58 percent, with an increase of 0.08 points compared to the previous average and ranging between 0.43 in Galicia and 0.77 in Castilla y León.
In the field of academic careers, the gender gap is found in stable teaching positions and not in temporary teaching positions, where the percentage of women is similar to that of men.. Among the different types of stable hires for teaching leadership positions, there have been positive and negative variations. On the one hand, there has been a slight increase in linked female professors (10.4 percent compared to 9.6 percent in 2021) and linked full professors (22.1 percent compared to 19.2 percent in 2021). ).
On the other hand, There has been a decline in the percentage of female deans of medical schools, (23.9 percent vs. 27.3 percent in 2021). It is worth remembering that in 2021 there were 44 Medical Faculties in Spain and in 2022 this increased to 46. WOMEDS has managed to collect information from 39 of them for 2021 and 43 for 2022. The WOMEDS observatory incorporates data on female leadership in Medicine through public sources of information and the collaboration of entities and organizations that provide their own information to the project..
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