Tandon Shobha, Kohli Anil, Bhalla Sumati
Department of Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Karnataka, India.
Int Dent J. 2007 Oct;57(5):331-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1875-595x.2007.tb00142.x.
Indian women, have come up a long way during the past 50 years. Gone are the days when the leadership positions in dentistry and health care professions were occupied solely by males and the women in-charge were looked down upon as anomalies. The staff rooms in dental and medical schools, the research laboratories in India today are employing women, who have quietly begun challenging the conventional male ideas that had shaped the policies earlier on. Women have advanced considerably in academic dentistry but like every coin, this story too, has two sides. In spite of the considerable gain in equity of status, women in research and academic careers related to health care professions still face innumerable barriers to their careers. This study was conducted with an aim to highlight the various barriers being faced by women in leadership positions in academic dentistry in India and this paper also suggests issues which require global concern for unbiased advancement of women. This was a questionnaire-based study in which the subjects were women in leadership positions in the various dental colleges in India. The questions are related to the various barriers like family commitments, attitude of the society, sexual harassment, gender bias and lack of cooperation from spouse which hinders the development of the careers of such women with tremendous potential. The results show that 67% of the subjects feel there are more barriers to their careers as women than men and health care professions definitely need more women leaders for improvement in women's health status globally. 63.5% of women in dentistry feel their family commitments are barriers to rising in their careers and 64.7% report that a marriage is happier if the husband's career graph is better than wife's. The survey results indicate that the same salary is paid to 93.5% women as their male colleagues. The results of the study show that there certainly has been a change in outlook of Indian women as they have broken the traditional norms and taken up careers in academic dentistry. There certainly is a positive side to this story but numerous challenges especially in the form of family commitments still remain for women in leadership positions in the dental colleges in India.
在过去50年里，印度女性取得了长足的进步。牙科和医疗保健行业的领导职位曾经完全由男性占据，而女性负责人被视为异类，遭人轻视，那样的日子已经一去不复返了。如今，印度的牙科和医学院校的教员室、研究实验室都在聘用女性，她们已经悄然开始挑战那些曾经塑造政策的传统男性观念。女性在学术牙科领域取得了长足的进步，但就像每一枚硬币都有两面一样，这个故事也不例外。尽管在地位平等方面有了相当大的提升，但从事与医疗保健行业相关的研究和学术职业的女性在职业发展中仍然面临无数障碍。本研究旨在突出印度学术牙科领域担任领导职位的女性所面临的各种障碍，本文还提出了一些需要全球关注的问题，以促进女性的公正发展。这是一项基于问卷调查的研究，研究对象是印度各牙科学院担任领导职位的女性。这些问题涉及各种障碍，如家庭责任、社会态度、性骚扰、性别偏见以及配偶缺乏合作等，这些都阻碍了这些极具潜力的女性的职业发展。结果显示，67%的受访者认为，作为女性，她们在职业发展中面临的障碍比男性更多，而且医疗保健行业绝对需要更多女性领导者，以改善全球女性的健康状况。63.5%的牙科女性认为家庭责任是她们职业晋升的障碍，64.7%的人表示，如果丈夫的职业发展比妻子好，婚姻会更幸福。调查结果表明，93.5%的女性与男同事薪酬相同。研究结果表明，印度女性的观念确实发生了变化，她们打破了传统规范，投身学术牙科职业。这个故事当然有积极的一面，但对于印度牙科学院担任领导职位的女性来说，仍然存在许多挑战，尤其是家庭责任方面的挑战。
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