Annals of Intensive Care volume 12 , Article number: 59 Cite this article. Metrics details. In our recent survey, we aimed to collect information on perceived inequity as well as professional and personal fulfillment among women intensivists in France.
For the respondents out of the persons who received the survey, the findings were unequivocal: for one-third of the respondents, being a woman was considered as an obstacle to careers or academic advancement, and for two thirds, pregnancy was viewed as a barrier to their career advancement. This review is aimed at providing a toolbox of organizational best practices designed to achieve gender equity. It is particularly important to share promising practical action engaged in our FEMMIR group with other concerned professionals around the world.
Nevertheless, and despite the fact that women have closed the sex gap with respect to their representation in the intensive care workforce, they remain underrepresented in the ranks of upper faculty.
It is a well-established fact that women are underrepresented in leading positions, undervalued in their academic careers, and that they experience gender discrimination in scientific and health care disciplines throughout the world [ 2 ].
Similar results were found in a previous international survey, where participants unanimously characterized critical care medicine as a specialty practiced predominantly by men [ 4 ]. Most of the women described experiences of being personally or professionally affected by gender inequity in their group [ 4 ].
