Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.15644/asc47/1/8
Is European Dentistry Becoming a Female Profession?
Vesna Barac Furtinger
; Croatian Dental Society CMA, Zagreb, Croatia
Rena Alyeva
; Head of Department of Pediatric Dentistry at Azerbaijan Medical University, Azerbaijan
Ludmila N. Maximovskaya
; Chief of the Department of General Dentistry of the Moscow State Medico-Dental University
Abstract
Among dentists in Europe, the proportion of women is constantly growing, regarding dentistry as a female profession. Changing demographics in the workforce will inevitably lead to changes in the profession, as was noticed by the umbrella organization of European dentists, ERO, which have established a working group Women in Dentistry in order to collect data and detect possible, expected changes. Using only a written questionnaire, data were collected, and after four years of follow-up, the absolute increase in the number of female dentists was observed, as well as in the number of female dental students. Comparing the movement with other university disciplines, from the requested data on the progress of the profession and working status, we obtained similar results. Consequently, we noted 5 points that distinguish the position of women in the profession: demographic data, career break, positions at the decision making level in the associations/chambers councils, incomes, retirement.
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98662
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Publication date:
20.3.2013.
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