Current women's health reports
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Curr Womens Health Rep · Jun 2002
ReviewGraduate education in women's health care: where have all the young men gone?
The trend toward female gender-dominance in women's health care carries enormous implications for the specialty, patients, and the practice of medicine as a whole. It is unclear what "gates," if any, should be created/maintained to control gender dominance, but it is certain that a continued shift in specialty constituency will change the way health care is provided to women. It is doubtful that even the most thorough prognosticators will be able to identify these changes prospectively, but several concerns arise regarding the security of the specialty when current literature is reviewed.
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Curr Womens Health Rep · Jun 2002
Psychological well-being of working women: a cross-cultural perspective.
Although the literature on the relationship between work and the family has grown substantially over the past 20 years, it is based primarily on studies conducted with white, middle-class workers. Thus, it is questionable whether findings can be generalized to nonwhite populations. This paper addresses the situation by utilizing a diverse sample. ⋯ However, there were distinct differences between minority and white workers in their reports of workplace and family experiences, and in coping strategies. The most distinct findings were a difference between the two groups in their perceptions of work as a "choice" (white workers) versus an "obligation" (minority workers), and a dichotomous model of work-family interactions among minority workers in which they compartmentalized their work and family lives. These results have implications for workplace policies and procedures, and point to the necessity of including the perspectives of minority subjects in future work-family research.