New Delhi, March 8 : An increasing number of women surgeons are joining the field of robotics -- dominated by men, said women robotic surgeons on International Women’s Day on Friday.

While women have made a significant mark in the field of medicine, surgery has for years been a male-dominated field.

However, things are slowly changing with more women now acing robotic technology in the field of gynaecology.

"The number of women taking up robotic surgery is increasing. Still there is a lot of desire to be improved here. In general, the surgical field appears to be a male dominated field. The women find it difficult to break into the field, and where women are taking up a lot of robotic surgery is gynecology," Rooma Sinha

President AGRS Association of Gynecological Robotic Surgeons of India Professor Gynecology Apollo Hospitals, told IANS.

"While more women are entering surgical branches, there is a dire need to keep pace. And it is especially important for women because surgery is long been perceived as ‘ only boys club’," added Dr Shabnam Bashir, Senior Consultant, Breast & Colorectal Cancer Surgeries, at Ujala Cygnus Superspeciality and Mubarak Hospital in Srinagar, Kashmir.

With technology racing ahead, the experts called upon women surgeons to upskill themselves.

Although upskilling is important for all, women surgeons cannot afford to lag behind, they said.