PALAVRAS-CHAVEMulheres, neurocirurgia, preconceito.
ABSTRACT
The women in neurosurgery Objective: This study aims to analyze the growth of female participation in the neurosurgical field.
Methods: A prospective study was conducted from the database of the Department of Medicine of the Brazilian Society of Medicine, which provided the genres of neurosurgery residents registered between the period 2006 to 2011. We also used the data of the numbers of members and their respective genres in Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery, the Brazilian Academy of Neurosurgery, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the American Board of Neurological Surgery (ABNS). Results:By analyzing the number of registered members of the AANS (2008), SBN (2010)