Nirupama Yeluripati Sai, Boppana Naveen Kumar, Vinnakota Narayana Rao, Thetakala Ravi Kumar, Kallakuri Praneetha, Karthik Burri Kiran
Department of Public Health Dentistry, Lenora Institute of Dental Sciences, Rajanagaram, Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Indian J Dent Res. 2020 May-Jun;31(3):358-362. doi: 10.4103/ijdr.IJDR_299_18.
The literature on women in dentistry clearly shows the evolution and elevation of women in academic as well as clinical dentistry. Female dentists in India continue to face the need to balance their careers with the competing social and personal responsibilities of marriage, homemaking, and child rearing.
To assess Indian Women Dentists perspectives towards balancing professional, personal, and social responsibilities.
This cross-sectional study was conducted for 1 month among 159 female dental professionals comprising all the female dental practitioners in Rajahmundry city and all the female interns, postgraduates, and academicians from 2 dental institutions in Rajahmundry city. A 23-item pretested questionnaire was distributed to the participants on the first day and collected after 1 day. The results were analyzed using SPSS software (V.22). The categorical data were analyzed using the χ test and P ≤ 0.05 was considered as statistically significant.
Among the study participants, 79.2% of study participants agreed that family commitments were not obstacles for their career (P = 0.02), 86.2% responded that women should be successful in both home-making and career and 89.9% of participants reported as not regretting being women and this finding was found to be statistically significant.
Majority of the women perceived that women ought to balance professional, personal, and social responsibilities equally.
牙科领域有关女性的文献清楚地表明了女性在牙科学术及临床方面的发展与提升。印度的女牙医仍需在职业发展与婚姻、家务及育儿等相互冲突的社会和个人责任之间寻求平衡。
评估印度女牙医对平衡职业、个人及社会责任的看法。
本横断面研究在159名女性牙科专业人员中开展，为期1个月，这些人员包括拉贾蒙德里市所有女性牙科从业者以及该市两所牙科机构的所有女性实习生、研究生和学者。在第一天向参与者发放一份经过预测试的包含23个条目的问卷，并在1天后收回。使用SPSS软件（版本22）对结果进行分析。分类数据采用χ检验进行分析，P≤0.05被视为具有统计学意义。
在研究参与者中，79.2%的参与者认为家庭责任并非其职业发展的障碍（P = 0.02），86.2%的参与者表示女性应在持家与职业上都取得成功，89.9%的参与者称不后悔身为女性，这一结果具有统计学意义。
大多数女性认为女性应该平等地平衡职业、个人和社会责任。
