Gender perspective in the training of health

Abstract

The gender issue is controversial, as it implies an analysis of society that reveals the inequalities and structural inequities associated with the value of sex and its cultural significance. Gender theory defines this construct as the culturally established power relationship between men and women. Contemporary human societies have in common the asymmetry of power, where femininity and women are subordinated to masculinity and therefore to men. It is the androcentric worldview that sustains and enables the social order, with the preeminence of the paternal lineage and the figure of the father as the subject that holds power and originates the framework of meanings that organize social life in a cosmogony represented in patriarchy. The implementation of the gender perspective in vocational training encounters obstacles related to the cultural resistance of the sex-gender system at the individual level of students, academics, acade mics and the resistance of organizations. What requires a change in the organizational culture through the implementation of gender mainstreaming. The training of health professionals with a gender perspective requires constant work over time and is manifested in the curricula, therefore, it is necessary to progressively address gender in different subjects as a transversal content and have a specific strong subject of gender applied to the specific training that is imparted.