Talk:Gender discrimination in the medical professions

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Things to include
Under ==Healthcare providers==, there are several things to consider:


 * Some patients discriminate against female healthcare providers. Some patients refuse to be cared for by a female physician.  Assuming that a woman working in a hospital is a nurse rather than a physician is commonplace.  Women are called diminutive names and expected to behave like servants ("Honey, could you clean up that mess?") more often than men.
 * Sexism sometimes runs the other way for male nurses.

It would be good to connect this to the problem of racism in medicine, because women of color are treated worse than white women. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:16, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Excellent suggestions. It is coincidence that I was speaking to a woman today organizing an edit-a-thon for notable women of color in the Pittsburgh area and racism in medicine is the first thing that came to my mind. Do you remember the study where black men in the south went untreated for syphilis? That would be one example. But I have to find that article first. Send any refs my way. Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) ✐   ✉  17:15, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

GU Wiki Edu Edit Proposal
Our names are Aashish Gullanki and Elliott Lloyd and we are Georgetown University students participating in a Wiki education course. We would like to propose some improvements to this article.

The first proposed change is adding a section about discrimination against transgender people in medical professions. Transgender people often face discrimination in medical school, and many transgender people end up hiding their identity in order to avoid prejudice in their professional lives. (source: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/trgh.2019.0021). We think that since this article includes information about discrimination both against women in the medical profession and men in the nursing profession, it would be good to also include information about discrimination against transgender people. We think expanding the view of gender discrimination would help make this article more complete.

The second proposed change is adding a section on how we can combat gender discrimination in the medical profession today. Of course, the first step is to raise awareness of how gender bias negatively impacts women’s careers. However, raising awareness is not enough to cause change. Leaders should bring about change by actively promoting and sponsoring women. They must also create an inclusive and respectful workplace where harassment shouldn’t be a concern for women (source: https://www.physiciansweekly.com/gender-bias-narratives-in-medicine). In addition, the way people are hired should be changed to reduce gender bias and discrimination (souce: https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2020/03/09/identifying-and-addressing-gender-bias-in-health-care/). Moreover, fairness in academic medical settings should be promoted to ensure that there are more reasonable guidelines and fairly distributed teaching, clinical, and research responsibilities (source: https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/gender-discrimination-medicine). Adding this section will help readers learn how to address the issue and take action to reduce gender discrimination among health care workers.

The third proposed change is revising the section on women in leadership positions. Right now, the article only talks about cardiovascular medicine. We think that the section should be expanded to provide more of a broad overview of the lack of women in leadership positions. For example, there are also gender disparities in leadership positions in the field of neuroscience. (Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33789226/ ). Just having the section highlight cardiovascular medicine implies that is the only field of medicine with these discrimination problems in leadership roles, and we think it would be good to provide more details on the way this influences the medical profession as a whole. AashishG108 (talk) 04:38, 6 July 2021 (UTC) --Axolotl61 (talk) 01:08, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Title Change
I would like to change the title of the article to Gender Discrimination in the Medical Profession. The articles focus seems to be on the professionals themselves - the discrimination of men/women as healthcare workers and should focus solely on that. The history (which is on the history of the bias in medical diagnosing) and the sections on female patients and clinical trials and research belong in another article. I would like to move them to the article gender bias in medical diagnosing where they will be more relevant to the topic. The word gender is better than sex because it is more expansive and can include all genders. I also think discrimination seems more appropriate than sexism. Estherjacob (talk) 16:12, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Since there was no opposition, I have now made this change. With this new title, the rest of the article should be updated to reflect this change. Estherjacob (talk) 22:36, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

I propose a change to the title to "Gender discrimination in health professions," to more accurately reflect the content. The article refers mainly to the medical profession, but also delves into the nursing profession. These are two separate health professions; conflating nursing with "the medical profession" contributes to its invisibility as a major contributor to the health sciences. - Dr Teresa Goodell, registered nurse  — Preceding unsigned comment added by NurseTTG (talk • contribs) 17:49, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

citation needed
This article seems to have plenty of sources, I suggest to take the banner away Nattes à chat (talk) 21:47, 15 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Agreed, the article currently has 67 sources spread across every section. I cleaned up a single Which? template, did a little reorganization, and removed the More Citations Needed template. Would appreciate any feedback on the changes. Thanks! CaptainAngus (talk) 16:54, 29 May 2023 (UTC)