{"id":17939,"date":"2018-08-07T09:39:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T09:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/?p=17939"},"modified":"2018-08-07T09:39:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T09:39:54","slug":"closing-gender-gap-life-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/closing-gender-gap-life-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing The Gender Gap In Life Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-fullwidth-1  fusion-parallax-none nonhundred-percent-fullwidth\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-style: solid;border-top-style: solid;padding-bottom:20px;padding-top:20px;padding-left:;padding-right:;\"><style type=\"text\/css\" scoped=\"scoped\">.fusion-fullwidth-1 {\r\n                            padding-left: px !important;\r\n                            padding-right: px !important;\r\n                        }<\/style><div class=\"fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-center fusion-title-size-one\"><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-left\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#a36160;\"><\/div><\/div><h1 class=\"title-heading-center\"><span style=\"color: #a36160;\">Low Number of Female Representatives In Life Sciences<\/span><\/h1><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#a36160;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep sep-none\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:;\"><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>number of female representatives<\/strong> in the Life Sciences industry are <strong>shockingly low<\/strong>. For a fact, women only hold <strong>17% of senior management positions<\/strong> and <strong>34% of middle management positions<\/strong> in life sciences companies. Those numbers are referred to women working in Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology. The lack of females in the life sciences industry is quite disappointing, given that the industry itself shows <strong>forward-looking trends<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although companies, such as <strong>Medtronic<\/strong>, <strong>Stryker<\/strong> and <strong>IBM Watson Health<\/strong> have women in high ranking positions, at an overall view, there are clearly <strong>not enough<\/strong> women. It is an accepted fact, that <strong>women<\/strong> make up <strong>half of the population<\/strong> and therefore represent <strong>half of health care consumers<\/strong>. With all the promising innovative changes that occur in the life sciences industry, the low number of women employed in the health care sector creates a real <strong>imbalance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To <strong>close the gender gap<\/strong> within the industry, companies must <strong>encourage participation<\/strong> from all employees to ensure that <strong>everyone\u2019s voice is heard<\/strong>, no matter the gender. Furthermore, providing more <strong>flexibility<\/strong> regarding working shifts can help women and men to <strong>perform their best at work<\/strong> while still fulfilling their <strong>responsibilities at home<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Melissa Bernstein<\/strong>, executive vice president of a medical device company she co-founded 16 years ago, says that women are still the <strong>primary decision-makers<\/strong> when it comes to <strong>family and health<\/strong>. However, medtech and biotech industries don\u2019t mirror the consumer base. This can result in <strong>suboptimal health care products<\/strong>, given that women <strong>don\u2019t<\/strong> necessarily <strong>share<\/strong> the <strong>same perspectives<\/strong> <strong>and opportunities<\/strong> like men. Bernstein also shares some strategies that can help industries to finally narrow the gender gap.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Part of this strategy is to further <strong>encourage team work<\/strong> where men and women work side by side and, together, create <strong>trustworthy<\/strong> <strong>and effective products<\/strong> for consumers. Moreover, being <strong>committed to transparency<\/strong> is another crucial point. When it comes to hiring people, the <strong>focus<\/strong> must always be <strong>on skills and qualifications<\/strong>. That being so, women need to <strong>show<\/strong> their <strong>accomplishments<\/strong> and <strong>speak up<\/strong> when they have ideas or solutions to <strong>strengthen female leadership<\/strong>. <strong>Skill-building programs<\/strong> and <strong>mentoring programs<\/strong> can help women believe in themselves and successfully use their potential.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At <strong>STRAMMER<\/strong> we are proud to <strong>encourage<\/strong> both, <strong>women and men,<\/strong> and <strong>embrace diversity<\/strong> in respect of gender, culture and sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep sep-none\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:;\"><\/div><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #b2999d;\">References:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boston Globe. Shirley Leung (September 2017). Why too few women in life sciences is bad for business. Available at: https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/business\/2017\/09\/20\/why-too-few-women-life-sciences-bad-for-business\/crkrbriWLw2IKJMoIzCjgI\/story.html<\/li>\n<li>Medical Plastic News. Lu Rahman (June 2018). Time we take the gender issue seriously. Available at: https:\/\/www.medicalplasticsnews.com\/news\/opinion\/time-we-took-the-gender-issue-seriously\/<\/li>\n<li>HBA Whitepaper. Progress of Women Executives in Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals. Available at: https:\/\/www.hbanet.org\/sites\/hba\/files\/docs\/Research_Studies\/EDGE-White-Paper-Abstract-v2.pdf<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","myguten_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}