Determination of Attitudes of Turkish Thoracic Society Members on Exposure to Sexist Approach and Sexism in Business Life

Background and Aim: Approaches leading to discrimination based on gender in medicine; may affect vocational and academic career, and relations. Preliminary study to determine the opinions of theTurkish Thoracic Society (TTS) members in gender context and to examine the gender discrimination. Methods: A crossesctional study. TTS members working at pulmonology, other medical fields were sent a questionnaires. 37 questions are asked. Results: Survey shared with 3454 members, filled out by 243. 69.14% female, 77.7%, married, 22.2%, single and 66.2%, 44 years of age or younger. 71,19% worked in pulmonology, 20,16% in thoracic surgery and 8,64% in other internal medicine. Females reported higher rates of gender-based discrimination in work life compared to male (86.4% vs 13.5%). For the suggestion that women may not be successful in surgical fields it was shown that the male participation was higher. Female and male physicians participated that social roles are in no small measure in choosing the specialty of female physicians. Both sexes have participated that housework is a burden for females. The physical characteristics affected medical profession and the female physicians are obliged to sacrifice in work life.. Conclusions: Female physicians have more gender-based family roles than males, gender and can be decisive in the academic career of female physicians. Although the female physicians do not have legal obstacles in choosing surgical branches that men are dominant, it is striking that their specialty area sare sexually indexed. These results are preliminary for our work relating to the gender inequality.