Department of Psychiatry, Bezmialem Vakif University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey.
Medical Faculty, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Eur Psychiatry. 2023 Oct 18;66(1):e89. doi: 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2023.2462.
Despite efforts toward greater gender equality in clinical and academic psychiatry in recent years, more information is needed about the challenges in professional development within psychiatry, and how these may vary with gender.
A cross-sectional 27-item online survey was conducted with psychiatrists and psychiatric trainee members of the European Psychiatric Association.
A total of 561 psychiatrists and psychiatric trainees from 35 European countries participated representing a response rate of 52.8% for women and 17.7% for men from a total sample of 1,580. The specific challenges that women face in their professional development fall into two categories. One comprised women's negative attitudes concerning their abilities in self-promotion and networking. The other identified environmental barriers related to lack of opportunity and support and gender discrimination. Compared to men, women reported higher rates of gender discrimination in terms of professional advancement. Women were less likely to agree that their institutions had regular activities promoting inclusion, diversity, and training to address implicit gender bias. Working in high-income countries compared to middle-income countries relates to reporting institutional support for career progression.
These findings are an open call to hospital leaders, deans of medical schools, and department chairs to increase efforts to eradicate bias against women and create safer, inclusive, and respectful environments for all psychiatrists, a special call to women psychiatrists to be aware of inner tendencies to avoid self-promotion and networking and to think positively and confidently about themselves and their abilities.
尽管近年来在临床和学术精神病学领域为实现更大的性别平等做出了努力，但仍需要更多有关精神病学专业发展中面临的挑战的信息，以及这些挑战如何因性别而异。
对欧洲精神病学协会的精神病医生和精神科住院医师进行了一项横断面 27 项在线调查。
共有来自 35 个欧洲国家的 561 名精神病医生和精神科住院医师参加了这项研究，代表了女性的总样本 1580 名的 52.8%和男性的 17.7%的应答率。女性在职业发展中面临的具体挑战分为两类。一类是女性对自己的自我推销和社交能力持消极态度。另一类确定了与缺乏机会和支持以及性别歧视有关的环境障碍。与男性相比，女性报告在职业发展方面遭受性别歧视的比例更高。女性更不愿意认同自己的机构有定期的活动来促进包容、多样性和培训，以解决隐性性别偏见问题。与中高收入国家相比，在高收入国家工作与报告机构对职业发展的支持有关。
这些发现呼吁医院领导、医学院院长和系主任加大力度消除对女性的偏见，并为所有精神病医生创造更安全、包容和尊重的环境，特别呼吁女性精神病医生注意避免自我推销和社交的内在倾向，并对自己和自己的能力持积极和自信的态度。
