Leadership and gender perspective in hospital physiotherapy units.
Communication
Gender
Health Professions
Leadership
Physiotherapy
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 05 2024
01 05 2024
Historique:
received:
10
01
2024
accepted:
27
04
2024
medline:
2
5
2024
pubmed:
2
5
2024
entrez:
1
5
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Analyze the gender stereotypes present in the leaders of the Hospital Physiotherapy Units, determine the level of acceptance of female leadership and identify which factors influence these perceptions. Observational, descriptive, exploratory and cross-sectional study. The study subjects are the census of leaders of the Physiotherapy Units of public hospitals. The measurement instruments used are the Acceptance of Female Leadership Questionnaire (ACT-LM), and the sociodemographic and job-related variables. Most of the leaders of the hospital physiotherapy units were women (69.4%) physiotherapists. Gender stereotypes emerge in the dimension of Instrumental Characteristics, with respondents not fully agreeing that women were sufficiently competitive (18.7%) or ambitious (20.8%) to be successful in the world of work. These data were influenced by gender, showing that men have a higher regard for female leadership abilities than women themselves. In the dimension of Acceptance of Female Leadership, 17.4% of those surveyed did not fully agree that women can rise to the same extent as men. Most of the leaders of the physiotherapy units in public hospitals in Spain are women, this is reversed in favor of men in highly complex hospitals. The stereotype persists, especially among women, that they do not have enough ambition and competitiveness to succeed in the world of work.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38693278
doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-60820-1
pii: 10.1038/s41598-024-60820-1
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Observational Study
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
10022Informations de copyright
© 2024. The Author(s).
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