DOI: 10.5279/dk-sa-dda-2482
title: Kønsaspekter i lægers karriereforløb, 1993
title: Sexual Aspects in the Careers of Doctors, 1993

description: Nordisk Ministerråd vedtog i 1992 at gennemføre et projekt om kvinders kompetence, avancement og lederegenskaber. Projektet var en del af Nordisk Ministerråds handlingsplan for ligestillingssamarbejdet 1989-1993. I denne handlingsplan var kvinders stilling og indflydelse i erhvervslivet fremhævet som et særligt vigtigt område.
        
        Projektets baggrund var, at en række undersøgelser har belyst barrierer for, at kvinder avancerer og når frem til ledende stillinger, men der har manglet analyser, der systematisk har set på kvinders og mænds karriereforløb inden for samme fag.
        
        Lægefaget blev valgt, fordi det er et fag, der er inde i en udvikling, hvor kønssammensætningen ændrer sig, og fordi der er relativt få kvinder i ledende stillinger, samtidig med at det er et fag, der i stigende grad søges af kvinder. Dette havde givet anledning til udtalelser om frygt for fagets fremtidige prestige, om en mulig nødvendig kvotering af mandlige studerende, mulig underbemanding i visse specialer mv.
        
        Der var oprindeligt to formål med undersøgelsen:
        
        - For det første skulle den belyse kvindelige og mandlige lægers erhvervsforløb med henblik på at finde ud af, om der var forskelle, i givet fald hvilke forskelle samt hvornår i erhvervsforløbet disse forskelle viste sig. Tidligere undersøgelser af lægers arbejds- og livsvilkår havde allerede vist, at der var forskelle i familiesituation, specialevalg og andel af ledende stillinger.
        
        - For det andet skulle undersøgelsens resultater bruges som grundlag for en interviewundersøgelse, der gennem kvalitative interviews skulle prøve at dykke ned bag de fundne forskelle med henblik på at belyse, hvad der lå bag forskellene. Der blev derfor lagt vægt på at få lægernes opfattelse af, hvorfor kvindelige og mandlige læger befandt sig forskellige steder i sundhedssystemet. Desværre viste det sig senere at være umuligt at gennemføre interviewdelen.
        
        I undersøgelsen sammenlignes en gruppe kvinder og mænd, der afsluttede deres lægestudie i 1982 i Danmark, Finland, Norge og Sverige. Island måtte desværre udgå af undersøgelsen, da der ikke var et tilstrækkeligt antal læger, der besvarede spørgeskemaet
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description: In 1992 the Nordic Council of Ministers decided to implement a project on the competence development, promotion and leadership qualities of women. The project formed part of the Nordic Council of Ministers' action programme for equal status co-operation in 1989-1993. In this action programme the status and influence of women in various occupations was emphasized as a particularly important area.     #  The background of the project was that a number of surveys have mapped out that there are barriers to the promotion of women and to women reaching leading position. However, no analyses have been available which have systematically examined the careers of women and men in the same occupation.     #  The medical profession was chosen because there are relatively few women in top jobs, while it is a career increasingly chosen by women. This had resulted in statements expressing fear of the future prestige of the occupation, of it becoming necessary to fix quotas of male students, of certain specialist fields becoming understaffed, etc.     #  The survey had two main purposes:     #  First, it was to examine the careers of women and male doctors in order to find out whether there were any differences, which differences and at what time in the professional career these differences appeared. Previous surveys of the working conditions and living conditions of doctors had already shown that there were differences in the family situation, choice of specialist field, and number of leading positions.     #  Secondly, the results of the survey were to be used as the basis for an interview survey which, by means of qualitative interviews, should make an attempt at examining the differences more closely in order to find out what underlies the differences. Therefore, emphasis was put on the doctors' opinion of why women and male doctors were in different positions in the system. Unfortunately, it turned out that is was not possible to carry out the interview part.     #  The survey contains a comparison between a group of women and men who graduated in 1982 in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Unfortunately, Iceland had to be left out as there was not a sufficient number of doctors who completed the questionnaire
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