Women's role in radiopharmaceuticals development and production in Argentina

GONZALEZ, MARÍA MAGDALENA; GIL, JUAN MANUEL; SUÁREZ, SERGIO GABRIEL; SOLDATI, ANALÍA LETICIA

Viena

Simposio; International Symposium on Trends in Radiopharmaceuticals Conference; 2023

Organización Internacional de Energía Atómica

Argentina has a long tradition in peaceful uses of nuclear energy and its applications. The subject of radiopharmaceuticals for the diagnosis or treatment of human health diseases has been constantly growing since the 1950s, and during these years women who work in physics, chemistry, engineering, biology and medicine have been participating in education, research, development, production, control and even policy jobs, supporting the advances of the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA) laboratories, different universities, the Nuclear Medicine Departments of many Hospitals and even the Argentinean Nuclear Protection Agency (ARN). Nowadays, Argentine counts with 6 federal and 4 private centers of nuclear medicine with ARN classified “class one” cyclotron-radiopharmacy installations, and distributed in all the territory, where radiopharmaceuticals are being developed and/or produced by a licensed team. In this work, we explored quantitatively and qualitatively the role and situation of women in the workforce of the national radiopharmaceutical world using the personal interview method and literature research.We relieve the number or women hired, the position occupied, the participation in national and international I+D and cooperation projects, the teaching and consulting activities, the highest study level, the familiar situation, the influence of maternity, and other items, and finally we postulate the trends and necessities for equal opportunities in this branch.