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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED144433 AUTHOR:
TITLE: An Exploratory Study of Women in the Health
Professions Schools. Volume I: Data Analysis, Findings,
Conclusions, Recommendations.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1976
NOTE: 467 p.; For related documents, see HE 009 211 and HE
009 213-221 ; Some parts of document may be marginally
legible when reproduced
ABSTRACT: The study focused on women's education in eight
health professions: medicine, osteopathy, dentistry,
veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, pharmacy, and
public health. Its central tasks were to identify and
explore the barriers to success that women face as school
applicants and students. Almost 600 interviews were
conducted with administrators, faculty members, and
students in 27 schools, and were supplemented by over 60
student group interviews. In the final report are included:
a detailed description of the study design; its findings
and conclusions concerning the relationships of women with
the professions and the schools, seven key resources for
increased access to this education, and barriers faced by
women in the professional training sequence; conceptual
models for success in recruitment, admissions, and
professional education, and strategies for testing the
models; and recommendations for affirmative action
enforcement, health manpower legislation, student financial
aid, future research, policy, and future program efforts.
Extensive data tables and measurement instruments are
included. (MSE)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Administrator-Attitudes; Admission-School;
Dentistry-; Equal-Education; Females-; Health-Personnel;
Interviews-; Labor-Force-Development; Legislation-;
Measurement-Instruments; Medical-Education; Medicine-;
Models-; Optometry-; Osteopathy-; Pharmacy-; Podiatry-;
Policy-Formation; Professional-Occupations; Public-Health;
Research-; Sex-Role; Statistical-Data; Student-Attitudes;
Student-Financial-Aid; Student-Recruitment; Teacher
Attitudes; Veterinary-Medicine
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Affirmative-Action; *Allied-Health
Occupations-Education; *Professional-Education; *Sex
Discrimination; *Womens-Education
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