2013, Number 2
Women's presence in health care industry management
Palomino GL
Language: Spanish
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Page: 612-635
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ABSTRACT
The present paper tends to describe women’s pad regarding academic formation and labor insertion in managing health care industry. Mainly two concepts were used in the creation of this analysis: the first one involves the gender perspective, the leading opinion in this document, and the second one, the trajectory that supports this investigation’s logic. For its development it was required an analysis of the latest thirty years’ statistics and the identification of spaces and processes of working opportunities that women have followed in the past forty years, with the main purpose of noticing higher education enrollment variation in the past years, identify women’s interests areas in higher education, identify insertion locations. Subsequently, the incorporation to labor market regarding the professional preparation, occupation rates according to education level and sex, occupation according economic sectors and gender, and finally identification of higher education working women were recognized. With the main intention of identifying women’s presence in health care institutions from the identification of women’s presence in management staff in health care industry in a federal organization and a local level, Federal District, and the consequences of its presence. Results suggest that women’s educational trajectory is successful: from its incorporation to higher education, from the appropriation in public services, outreaching men’s presence in various fields. Academic achievements have allowed successful incorporation of female population to labor market. In the health care industry their presence is meaningful in management areas. Nevertheless, in the higher positions of specialized attention, they have a minor presence. Finally, it’s emphasized that their presence has not concluded in a modification of institutional policies regarding gender perspective.