Attitudes of medical students towards gender roles

Purpose: Among the consequences of gender inequality, health workers have important responsibilities in dealing with the consequences of health-disrupting factors such sexual assault and unintended pregnancy, unhealthy miscarriages, sexually transmitted diseases and violence. we aimed to detect the attitudes towards gender roles and predictors of such attitudes in medical school students affiliated at the Pamukkale University School of Medicine. Materials and methods 276 women, 234 men totally 510 students volunteered fort he study. The Gender Roles Attitude Scale and data collection sheet were used in the current study. This scale consists of 38 Items. The highest point that may be received from the scale is 190 and the lowest is 38. Receiving high points means having an egalitarian attitude. There are five sub-dimensions of the scale and they are; egalitarian gender, woman gender, gender at marriage, traditional gender and male gender roles. In statistical analyses of the data for the independent variables, the Student t- test and Kruskal Wallis Test were used. Results: It was found that the difference between TCRT total and subgroup score median and gender, family type, family economic status, number of siblings, mother's education level, father's educational status, mother's working status, place of birth and place of residence were statistically significant. Conclusion According to the findings of our study, the socio-demographic characteristics affect the attitudes of the medical school students towards gender roles. We believe that it is important to solve the health problems arising from gender inequality by integrating the education programs that are sensitive to gender equality in the curriculum of undergraduate medical education from the first class