What Medical Schools Teach about Women

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The process of professionalization includes learning attitudes about work, about relations with colleagues, and about patients or clients. Along with the learning of information and skills, the adoption of these "approved" attitudes brings the novitiate into full membership in a profession. In medicine, as undoubtedly in every profession in society, these attitudes are strongly colored by a demeaning regard for women. How could it be otherwise? In the first place, such attitudes about women are pervasive in society,1 and, secondly, the medical profession has been virtually a male province.The expression of these attitudes about women appears in incidents that . . .

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