Women In Medicine Essay

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Bowman, M., & Frank, E. (2002). Historical Context. In Women in Medicine: Career and Life Management (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Springer. Marjorie A. Bowman is a medical doctor and professor at the Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine. Her interest in females in the medical field pressured her to discover and research women’s evolvement over the years. She also published books on women’s well-being and the stresses of being a female physician. Women in Medicine gives a great background of women’s role in history. It discusses steps toward female involvement in the career field, including the first medical school and first females to be granted enrollment. This book also debates the ideas of why women began their journey to …show more content…

Data was gathered from the Association of American Medical Colleges. The authors found that even with an increase in the proportion of the female medical students, women are continuing to be underrepresented in the higher disciplines of medicine. The article also explains the steps and institution based initiatives that are aimed toward improving and increasing the role that women play in today’s medical field.
Riska, E. (1993). Gender, Work, and Medicine: Women and the Medical Division of Labour. London: Sage Publications. In this book, Riska and Wegar give insight into why many believe that women physicians will never be true equals in the American medical profession. They back many of their ideas up with personal experiences, hard facts and data. They discuss the idea of a ‘glass ceiling’ in which women are kept out of the top positions because of sexism. This book really helps research the ideas about women’s equality and the hardships that they have faced as they have developed in this career field. Not only does it tie in with the history, but it gives good evidence to support why it was so hard. Later on in the book, the authors also discussed women physicians as being the possible new force in today’s medicine. They talk about how women are now being overrepresented in comparison to males in some areas of the field. This book provides evidence of women’s suffrage in the field, but also how they are persevering and overcoming their

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