U9 HEALTH SCIENCES AND GENDER

Question 1

What are the problems faced by women and their role in science?

Answer 1

• invisibility
• impediments
• naturalization

Question 2

What does the problem of invisibilty ential?

Answer 2

• Not including personalities, spaces and practices associated with women in the history of science

Question 3

What does the problem of impediments ential?

Answer 3

Some higher education institutions refused to admit women.
“glass ceiling”
“matilda effect”

Question 4

What types of barries can be imposed on women?

Answer 4

• Legal barriers
• Invisible barriers

Question 5

What is “matilda effect”

Answer 5

Negative or baised evaluation of women’s contributions as opposed

Question 6

What is the “glass ceiling”?

Answer 6

Anchored to your position and difficulties to raise

Question 7

What does the problem of naturalization ential?

Answer 7

Attempt of naturalizing son barriers through scientific or medical discourses which are limits to women.
In the 19th C started appearing women authors and giving public courses

Question 8

In the classical greece..

Answer 8

women were excluded from public life but had access to places of knowledge: (Plato’s Academy)(active participation of women in the Pythagoreans

Question 9

Role of the women in the middle ages?

Answer 9

6th-12th C: Church monopolizes education –> monasteries as knowledge centers (there were a few female monasteries)
12th - …: medieval univresities appear (fewer opportunities for women except Italy)

Question 10

In the Renaissance and Scientific Revolution…

Answer 10

Women continued to be excluded from scientific academies and entering meeting halls
Matrimony became a route form women to practice science

Question 11

Reasons for the feminization of the healthcare professions?

Answer 11

• More flexible and less risky work enviroments
• Fewer DIFFERENCESIN SALARIES tan in any other sector
• Dedication to the public sector

Question 12

Gender associated with

Answer 12

Familiy roles
Job expectations
Type of occupation
Social culture

Question 13

Differences in sex realted to treatment…

Answer 13

Effects of the treatment
Results of the diagnostic tests
Presentation of clinical sings and symptoms

Question 14

Differences in health according to sex

Answer 14

• illness more prevalent, unique in one sex than the other
• Different symptoms, results and prognosis between them

Question 15

What influences differences in the health according to the sex?

Answer 15

• Healthcare process: wait, delay..
• Therapeutinc effort: consumption and cost per sex, over-prescription and different therapeutic strategies

Question 16

Differences in health according to gender

Answer 16

• Greater morbidity in women due to poverty, family responsabilities, lack of attentio in prengancy and child birth
• Gender biases in diagnoses and treatments women receive

Question 17

Gender violence deprives women from…?

Answer 17

Exercising their sexual and reproductive rights