Women in Medicine: Excluding Women
Keyword
FeminismWomen
Women In Medicine
Sex Discrimination Against Women
Physicians
Women/Trends
Motivation
Attitude Of Health Personnel
Women – Trends
Date Published
8/24/2016Metadata
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Throughout history, society has pushed women out of the public sphere of work and into the private sphere of home. The medical field is one example of this gender segregation of work. Even though the medical field today is not as male-dominated as it once was, different sub-specializations in medicine are gender segregated. My goal for this essay is to focus on gender segregation in the workplace to show how the field of medicine has been masculinized with a particular focus on the subspecialty area of surgery. This paper will discuss these two points from a personal point of view and explain how this affects me, being a woman of color who one day plans to be a part of the medical field. This research will look at the gender segregation of medicine and examine what factors, if any, are shifting to allow more women to enter male-dominated professions such as surgery.Collections
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