University of Western Australia, Western Australia, Australia.
King Edward Memorial Hospital, Western Australia, Australia.
Res Social Adm Pharm. 2023 Jun;19(6):965-968. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2023.03.001. Epub 2023 Mar 6.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 to 'achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls' aims to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls and ensure their full and effective participation in all spheres of life. In alignment with this, several key international initiatives are making progress towards gender equality in the pharmacy profession. The pharmacy profession must support women and accelerate the progress of women in leadership positions in pharmacy. International and national pharmacy professional bodies can play a critical role in fostering the change required to improve gender equality in all regions and countries. The ongoing development, evaluation and implementation of policies and initiatives are critical to a profession that is increasingly becoming feminised. Furthermore, there is an imperative to deeply understand the gender-based barriers and develop evidence-based strategies and solutions to support women in pharmacy leadership. There is extensive literature and research on gender inequality and its impact on leadership outside pharmacy which could be used strategically for the profession to develop its own evidence based strategic position. Robust initiatives are needed to ensure that women at all levels including women in pharmacy leadership are empowered and encouraged to participate in their profession. This commentary seeks to generate and contribute to the debate to ensure the profession is proactive and deliberate in tackling the challenges that have traditionally impeded women reaching leadership positions and several critical actions as next steps are proposed. Action is needed to improve gender equality in pharmacy leadership and a profession-wide discussion on ways to progress the above proposed actions is critically needed.
联合国可持续发展目标 5 旨在“实现性别平等，增强所有妇女和女童的权能”，旨在消除对妇女和女童的一切形式歧视，确保其充分和有效参与生活的各个领域。与此一致的是，一些主要的国际倡议正在朝着药剂师职业中的性别平等方向取得进展。药剂师职业必须支持妇女，并加速妇女在药剂师领导职位上的进步。国际和国家药剂师专业机构可以在促进所有地区和国家改善性别平等所需的变革中发挥关键作用。正在制定、评估和实施的政策和倡议对于一个日益女性化的职业至关重要。此外，必须深刻理解基于性别的障碍，并制定基于证据的战略和解决方案，以支持妇女在药剂师领导中的地位。在药剂学之外，有大量关于性别不平等及其对领导能力影响的文献和研究，可以战略性地用于该职业，以制定自己的基于证据的战略立场。需要强有力的举措来确保各级妇女，包括药剂师领导层中的妇女，都有能力并鼓励她们参与自己的职业。本评论旨在引发并促进辩论，以确保该职业在解决传统上阻碍妇女担任领导职务的挑战方面积极主动、深思熟虑，并提出了几个下一步的关键行动。需要采取行动来改善药剂师领导中的性别平等，并且整个行业都需要讨论推进上述拟议行动的方法。
