Medical Careers and Feminist Agendas: American, Scandinavian and Russian Women Physicians

by Elianne Riska

The increasing proportion of women in the medical profession has been followed keenly both by conservative and feminist observers during the past three decades. Statistics both in Europe and in the United States tend to confirm that women work mainly in niches of the health care system or medical specialties characterized by relatively low earnings or prestige. The segregation of medical work has become increasingly recognized as a sign of inequality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202306682
• ISBN13: 9780202306681
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"