Medicine and Feminization in Brazilian Universities: Gender and Intersections

• Autor(a) principal: Minella, Luzinete Simões
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Estudos Feministas
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/53338

This article analyzes the profile socio-economic, generational and ethnic of the students and aspirants students to Medicine graduation courses in two Brazilian states: Bahia and Santa Catarina, between 2005 and 2015. The intersectional approach draws upon the authors of contributions Gender field and Sciences, as well as studies on the participation of women in the medical area in Brazil, in order to further contribute to the debate about the feminisation of the area. Considering regional interferences in the setting of the profiles found in public universities (UFBA and UFSC), as well as the private network universities (FTC and EBMSP in Bahia and UNIVALI and UNESC in Santa Catarina), the research methodology included the collection of secondary data (about sex, household income, age, color and origin), document analysis and review of the literature.