Women leadership: report of the first meeting of Female Family Physicians in Brazil

Abstract

This report is situated in the scope of female family physicians’ protagonism and their national organization through the Women's Working Group on Family and Community Medicine, which was founded in 2016 under the Brazilian Society of Family and Community Medicine, a scientific entity that represents this medical specialty in the country. It describes the organization of the first Meeting of this Working Group, held in 2019, focusing on gender equity in spheres as: professional, academic, management, educational and research, as well as permeating the institution itself. The Meeting, named "Female Leadership in Health", happened in the University of Brasília and this article describes its organizational trajectory (human resources, finances, scientific and cultural structure) and its unfoldings. The event welcomed students and professionals from other fields and offered contemporary debates, for example: female protagonism, self care, intersectionalities, maternity and work, participation of women in politics and gender inequities. The Meeting gathered women from four regions of Brazil, deepened peer bonds and support, and enabled the expansion of the agenda of gender consciousness and its influence in women family physicians' daily life in their experience in management, university, science and assistance.