Beygui Nooshin, Bahl Disha, Mansour Christina, Michos Erin D, Velagapudi Poonam, Grapsa Julia, Choi Andrew, Naidu Srihari S, Parwani Purvi
Central Michigan University College of Medicine, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, USA.
St. George's University School of Medicine, Grenada, West Indies.
CJC Open. 2021 Sep 13;3(12 Suppl):S130-S136. doi: 10.1016/j.cjco.2021.08.009. eCollection 2021 Dec.
Although the number of women in the field of medicine continues to rise, the discrimination against women and the gender inequity in both leadership roles and salary remains persistent. The gender divide is particularly prominent in male-dominated specialties, such as cardiology. Social media help foster global connections and disseminate information quickly and worldwide. The rise of social media has influenced how female physicians communicate and has shown its benefits particularly within the field of cardiology. Virtual platforms are important avenues where female physicians have united for greater representation of gender issues and advocacy efforts. Social media further amplify gender-equality activism by facilitating the conversations surrounding gender equity and proposing solutions to self-identified issues by the virtual community of female physicians and their allies. In this review, we discuss the role of social media as tools for advancing women in the field of cardiology and fostering gender equality and diversity.
尽管医学领域的女性人数持续增加，但对女性的歧视以及在领导角色和薪资方面的性别不平等现象依然存在。性别差异在心脏病学等男性主导的专科领域尤为突出。社交媒体有助于促进全球联系，并在全球范围内迅速传播信息。社交媒体的兴起影响了女医生的交流方式，尤其在心脏病学领域展现出了其优势。虚拟平台是女医生团结起来以更好地代表性别问题并开展宣传工作的重要途径。社交媒体通过促进围绕性别平等的对话，并为由女医生及其盟友组成的虚拟社区提出针对自我认定问题的解决方案，进一步放大了性别平等行动主义。在本综述中，我们讨论了社交媒体作为推动心脏病学领域女性发展以及促进性别平等和多样性的工具所发挥的作用。
