Promoting Gender Equity in the #MeToo Era.
#MeToo
discrimination
gender equity
gender-based neglect
harassment
Journal
The Journal of hand surgery
ISSN: 1531-6564
Titre abrégé: J Hand Surg Am
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 7609631
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2020
Dec 2020
Historique:
received:
02
12
2019
revised:
25
04
2020
accepted:
03
07
2020
pubmed:
20
8
2020
medline:
29
6
2021
entrez:
20
8
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The recent #MeToo movement in social media has brought the important issue of gender-based violence and harassment in the workplace to the forefront of public attention. As in other fields, gender-based discrimination and sexual harassment continue to be a problem in medicine, and gender inequalities are particularly apparent in surgical specialties. Whereas the #MeToo movement has successfully raised awareness and held some perpetrators accountable, there have been unintended backlashes, including reluctance from some male surgeons to mentor female surgeons for fear of false accusations of sexual misconduct at both the trainee and the faculty levels. Gender-based neglect is harmful to the career advancement of female surgeons and threatens to continue to promote gender inequalities in surgery. We propose systems-level strategies to promote gender equity at the academic-training level and within the field of hand surgery.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32811692
pii: S0363-5023(20)30399-3
doi: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2020.07.004
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1167-1172Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.