Department of Infectious Diseases, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
BMJ Open. 2012 Nov 27;2(6). doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001993. Print 2012.
In 2009, in a European survey, around a quarter of Europeans reported witnessing discrimination or harassment at their workplace. The parity committee from the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) designed a questionnaire survey to investigate forms of discrimination with respect to country, gender and ethnicity among medical professionals in hospitals and universities carrying out activities in the clinical microbiology (CM) and infectious diseases (ID) fields.
The survey consisted of 61 questions divided into five areas (sociodemographic, professional census and environment, leadership and generic) and ran anonymously for nearly 3 months on the ESCMID website.
European specialists in CM/ID.
Overall, we included 1274 professionals. The majority of respondents (68%) stated that discrimination is present in medical science. A quarter of them reported personal experience with discrimination, mainly associated with gender and geographic region. Specialists from South-Western Europe experienced events at a much higher rate (37%) than other European regions. The proportion of women among full professor was on average 46% in CM and 26% in ID. Participation in high-level decision-making committees was significantly (>10 percentage points) different by gender and geographic origin. Yearly gross salary among CM/ID professionals was significantly different among European countries and by gender, within the same country. More than one-third of respondents (38%) stated that international societies in CM/ID have an imbalance as for committee member distribution and speakers at international conferences.
A quarter of CM/ID specialists experienced career and research discrimination in European hospitals and universities, mainly related to gender and geographic origin. Implementing proactive policies to tackle discrimination and improve representativeness and balance in career among CM/ID professionals in Europe is urgently needed.
2009 年，在一项欧洲调查中，约四分之一的欧洲人报告称在工作场所遭遇过歧视或骚扰。欧洲临床微生物学和传染病学会（ESCMID）平等委员会设计了一份问卷调查，以调查从事临床微生物学（CM）和传染病（ID）领域活动的医院和大学中的医疗专业人员在国籍、性别和族裔方面的歧视形式。
该调查由 61 个问题组成，分为五个领域（社会人口统计学、专业普查和环境、领导和通用），在 ESCMID 网站上匿名进行了近 3 个月。
欧洲 CM/ID 专家。
总体而言，我们纳入了 1274 名专业人员。大多数受访者（68%）表示，医学领域存在歧视。其中四分之一的人报告了个人歧视经历，主要与性别和地理位置有关。来自西南欧的专家经历歧视事件的比例（37%）远高于其他欧洲地区。CM 中的全职教授中女性比例平均为 46%，ID 中为 26%。参与高层决策委员会的女性比例因性别和原籍国而异，差异超过 10 个百分点。CM/ID 专业人员的年薪在欧洲国家之间以及在同一国家的性别之间存在显著差异。超过三分之一的受访者（38%）表示，CM/ID 国际学会在委员会成员分布和国际会议演讲者方面存在不平衡。
四分之一的 CM/ID 专家在欧洲医院和大学中经历了职业和研究歧视，主要与性别和原籍国有关。在欧洲，迫切需要实施积极主动的政策来解决歧视问题，并改善 CM/ID 专业人员的职业代表性和平衡。
