Organizational quality management with a gender perspective
Keywords:
gender equity in health, gender in working lifeAbstract
Introduction: The National School of Public Health, an institution that deals with postgraduate training and research in public health, requires that professors and support staff in teaching and research have gender equality incorporated into their work. Gender perspective must be mainstreamed into the working climate of the institution.Objectives: To identify the gender gaps in organizational management that takes place in the institution.
Methods: The records of the Human Resources Department of the National School of Public Health were reviewed and in-depth interviews were conducted with the institution's directors and discussion groups with officials. The quantitative information was disaggregated by sex and summarized in percentages. A statistical homogeneity test with a significance level of 0.05 was used to identify differences. With those coming from qualitative sources, the resulting categories were reached at from the content analysis.
Results: No marked differences were found between women and men in most of the variables studied, although gaps persist in terms of access to higher level decision-making positions.
Conclusions: Although there are no marked gender gaps in management at National School of Public Health, there are areas in which concern should be intensified, such as women's access to higher-level decision-making positions in the institution and the occupation of support tasks.
Downloads
References
2. Indicadores centrales Descripción DESIGUALDADES ENTRE HOMBRES Y MUJERES. [cited 2018 Jul 6]; Available from: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/gender.shtml
3. Organización de las Naciones Unidas. Convención sobre la eliminación de todas las formas de discriminación contra la mujer. CEDAW [Internet]. [cited 2018 Sep 18]. Available from: https://www.unicef.org/panama/spanish/MujeresCo_web.pdf
4. ONU Noticias. Las mujeres están por debajo de los hombres en todos los indicadores de desarrollo sostenible. 2018 [cited 2018 Jul 7]; Available from: https://news.un.org/es/story/2018/02/1427081
5. ONU Mujeres. La Plataforma de Acción de Beijing: inspiración entonces y ahora. [cited 2018 Jul 7];
Available from:http://beijing20.unwomen.org/es/about
6. The Global Gender Gap Report 2017 Insight Report. [cited 2018 Jul 6]; Available from: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GGGR_2017.pdf
7. Urriola Perez I. Mainstreaming de Género en la práctica: Cambio Organizacional pro Equidad y Segunda Estrategia de Género en PNUD El Salvador Tesis. Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Autora:; 2008.
8. Alvarez Suarez M, Castañeda Abascal I, Rojo Perez N, Guerrero Borrego N, Rodriguez Reyes I, Rodriguez Lara M. Experiencia demostrativa de un Sistema de Gestion en Iualdad de Genero para instituciones del sector salud en Cuba. 2012. p. 67.
9. Ministerio de Salud Pública. Dirección de Registros Médicos y Estadísticas de Sald. Anuario EStadístico de Salud de Cuba. 2018. La Habana, Organización Mundial de la Salud, UNICEF, UNFPA, 2018
10. Jorna Calixto AR, Castañeda Abascal IE, Véliz Martínez F. Estilos de dirección en salud en Cuba desde la perspectiva de género. Revista Cubana de Salud Pública 2015 Vol 41, No 2
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Those authors who have published with this journal, accept the following terms:
a. The authors will keep their copyright and guarantee the magazine the right of first publication of their work, which will be simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons Attribution License that allows third parties to share the work as long as the author and first publication of this magazine are indicated.
b. The authors may adopt other non-exclusive license agreements for the distribution of the published version of the work (e.g., deposit it in an institutional telematic archive or publish it in a monographic volume) as long as the initial publication in this journal is indicated.
c. Authors are allowed and recommended to disseminate their work through the Internet (e.g.: in institutional telematic archives or in their web page) before and during the submission process, which may produce interesting exchanges and increase the number of citations of the published work. (See The effect of open access).
