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Thirteen organisations answered no and one organisation answered yes.
Q5. Do you have any comments on this Survey? Please write them here. Two organisations made comments in
their reply to Q5. One was: “In […] there are more women than men working as a dentist. This can also been seen in our committees, e.g. in the Committee of Continuing Education we have ı3 members (ıı women and two men) and in the board of our Society we have ıı members (eight women and three men).” The other comment was: “I would be
interested to learn of your survey findings and would be pleased to assist further as you wish.” No other comments were returned in the survey. The response rate (50 per cent) in
the web-based survey was satisfactory. Two DROs (ı4 per cent) said they had a gender-based sub unit in their structure. A further one DRO (7 per cent) said they were planning to introduce a gender- based unit. Both of the DROs which responded said membership of their gender-based committee was open to males and females.
Conclusions There are strong arguments for and against gender based committees in dentist representative organisations. Gender-based committees are an unusual feature in the structure of the main national dentist representative organisations in the EU. Currently, few DROs plan to introduce gender-based units. Where they do occur, membership is open to male dentists and female dentists.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Liam Lynch BDS MDPH PhD is a dentist practising in Cork City, Ireland. He has more than 34 years’ experience of active involvement in publicly-funded dentistry. He lectures on the topic of healthcare fraud to MSc students in Healthcare Law and Ethics at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland in Dublin. He has published and lectured internationally on probity assurance systems in oral healthcare. In 2013, he was awarded a PhD from The National University of Ireland for his thesis The Counter Practitioner Fraud in Publicly Funded Dentistry Index – A New Dental Instrument.
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