International Women’s Day 08.03.2010 “Female Steps in Medicine”

Throughout life women and men contribute every day to society. Both genders are supposed to play different parts to the forthcoming of their society, their family, their career. The last centuries made an extreme change to the traditional gender pictures, but still requirements regarding health and behavior towards risks and risk-taking are different.

In 2010 EMSA (European Medical Student Association) will raise awareness to the different roles women play in society and to their requirements regarding career planning, by celebrating the

International Women’s Day on March, 8th.

EMSA wants to set up an annual event that concerns about women in medicine and women health issues in general. The first International Women’s Day celebrated by EMSA will deal with young female medical students and doctors approaching their career, the lack of University’s support of female students, what goes well and what should be improved at the university in Europe concerning female medical students. 

Regarding the chosen topic (“Female Steps in Medicine”) we would like to ask all female medical students to participate at a survey and pass it back to us by the end of March ().

Link: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHFUMFU5WU9ieURvb0xaUElNSk4yNWc6MA

We thank you for your interest and we look forward to your answers!

We also encourage you to become a fan of the EMSA International Women’s Day!  Log in:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/manage/#!/pages/International-Womens-Day-2010/295210843961

Europeanly yours,

Constanze Born (Liaison Officer toward the WHO 2009/2010)

Mickuela las van Bennekom (Medical Ethics Director 2009/2010)