SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.46 número1Experiencia de autoevaluación del Doctorado en Salud Pública, Universidad San Carlos de Guatemala, 2015Prevalencia de marcadores serológicos en donantes de sangre de Boyacá, Colombia, 2014-2015 índice de autoresíndice de materiabúsqueda de artículos
Home Pagelista alfabética de revistas  

Servicios Personalizados

Revista

Articulo

Indicadores

  • No hay articulos citadosCitado por SciELO

Links relacionados

  • No hay articulos similaresSimilares en SciELO

Compartir


Revista Cubana de Salud Pública

versión impresa ISSN 0864-3466versión On-line ISSN 1561-3127

Resumen

JORNA CALIXTO, Ana Rosa  y  VELIZ MARTINEZ, Pedro Luis. Perceptions of female participation in the direction of the health sector in Cuba, 2017. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2020, vol.46, n.1, e1380.  Epub 10-Mayo-2020. ISSN 0864-3466.

Introduction:

The political will of raising the women representativeness in leadership positions is manifested in different debate spaces.

Objective:

To describe the perceptions of women and men on women's participation in leadership positions in the health sector.

Methods:

Qualitative research conducted in the period 2013-2017 in the health sector in Cuba. The information sources were reviewed; 28 semi-structured interviews to managers and 13 in-depth interviews to key informants were applied. It was created a guide of questions obtained from the scientific literature consulted and after the experts’ consensus. In addition, the causes that generate a lower representation of women in leadership positions were investigated. The data were processed on the basis of the analysis of content.

Results:

It was found the existence of multiple documents that reflect the will of the Cuban government to promote women to positions of leadership. The people interviewed tend to separate or segregate the positions on the basis of gender, according to management levels and responsibilities that are awarded or deployed by men and women in the exercise of the positions.

Conclusions:

From the mentioned perceptions emerge remnants of an androcentric culture in which are highlighted gender differences in leadership positions of greater hierarchy in the social context of the Cuban health sector.

Palabras clave : leadership positions; perceptions; gender; Cuba.

        · resumen en Español     · texto en Español     · Español ( pdf )