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Towards gender balance: but will women physicians have an impact on medicine?

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The increasing numbers of women in medicine in western societies has raised the issue about their impact on medical practice. As a way of addressing the issue, this paper explores women's position in medicine in the Nordic countries, where the medical profession will soon be gender-balanced. Support for both a ghettoization and a vanguard argument for women physicians can be documented. The final section offers three sociological perspectives -- the socialization theory, the neo-Weberian, and the social constructionist -- as theoretical explanations for the gender segregation of medicine and as diagnostic paradigms and potential heuristic devices to aid women's empowerment as medical providers.

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  • Riska, Elianne, 2001. "Towards gender balance: but will women physicians have an impact on medicine?," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 52(2), pages 179-187, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:52:y:2001:i:2:p:179-187
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    1. Kodama, Tomoko & Koike, Soichi & Matsumoto, Shinya & Ide, Hiroo & Yasunaga, Hideo & Imamura, Tomoaki, 2012. "The working status of Japanese female physicians by area of practice: Cohort analysis of taking leave, returning to work, and changing specialties from 1984 to 2004," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 105(2), pages 214-220.
    2. Godager, Geir & Hennig-Schmidt, Heike & Li, Jing Jing & Wang, Jian & Yang, Fan, 2021. "Does gender affect medical decisions? Results from a behavioral experiment with physicians and medical students," HERO Online Working Paper Series 2021:1, University of Oslo, Health Economics Research Programme.
    3. Parsons, Donna Boone & Mills, Albert J., 2012. "I’ve got a Gal in Kalamazoo: Rotary International, change and the outsourcing of gender," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 28(4), pages 311-320.
    4. Li, JingJing & Godager, Geir & Wang, Jian, 2016. "Does physician gender influence the provision of medical care? An experimental study," HERO Online Working Paper Series 2016:6, University of Oslo, Health Economics Research Programme.
    5. Kaneto, Chie & Toyokawa, Satoshi & Inoue, Kazuo & Kobayashi, Yasuki, 2009. "Gender difference in physician workforce participation in Japan," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 89(1), pages 115-123, January.

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