History, Power, Challenges and Opportunities for Women Surgeons and Women Artists

Abstract

This article was written after “women’s surgeon lunch meeting” was organized by European Society of Gynecological Endoscopy (ESGE) during their annual conference in August 2019 at Thessaloniki, Greece. As creators and innovators of new surgical techniques and procedures or as contributors to already-existing ones, women have always been an essential part of the art. However, they have had to overcome difficulties in training and gaining recognition because of gender biases. To our knowledge, there were more than 50% men in the audience despite the fact that there were only female speakers at this meeting. This article discusses the difficulties women have faced in becoming pioneers in the fields of medicine and art. Women face more obstacles than men do, for a variety of reasons, including the patriarchal society's bias against women, the physiological burden of childbirth, and social expectations that mothers should be the primary carers.Women have come a long way and we narrate the experiences of the women as surgeons and as artists. Prof Liselotte Mettler was crowned with the honorary membership of Berlin obstetrics and Gynecological society in the same hall where the audience, once, was addressed as “Gentlemen” as there were no women in the august audience at that time. This progressive and optimistic article will acts as a spokesperson for women in all elds from all over the world.