A female surgeon

A female surgeon

Meeting in Francheville (Métropole de Lyon) with Céline CHAULEUR, head of the gynaecology-obstetrics department at the University Hospital of Saint-Etienne. Early in the morning the Chaleur family enjoyed a moment together. This was not always the case, when Céline worked on the aggregation competition to become a professor of medicine. Céline admits that it was a very complicated period. "That’s what makes many women give up anyway". Her husband, a general practitioner, explained that he had agreed to work part-time so that he could organize himself on a daily basis. Celine thinks that respect is harder to get for a woman in the position she now holds. Very often the patients are looking for a surgeon behind us. In consultation and ask us who will operate on them. Is it really you?" And it’s almost the same with confreres. "It’s harder when you’re a woman to make your place." At 42, Professor Chauleur remains an exception to this position, but today with nearly 70% of girls in medical schools, she could in the coming years, make emulations.

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File : Women and power

Publication date : 9 March 2015