Tackling Gender Inequality in Healthcare

Our mission at Janssen is to create a well-care era where we are better at preventing illness, diagnosing illness quickly, and supporting people to maintain their own health. But there are structural problems in our current healthcare system that we
must address as we work towards this new era. Here, Demet Russ, General Manager of Janssen Turkey, explores why women still face bias and discrimination in healthcare, both in the care they receive, and in their career paths in the healthcare sector. Social and cultural stereotypes that limit women’s opportunities date back a long way in history, but have we really moved on as much as we might like to think?