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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED177921 AUTHOR: Yalow, Rosalyn
TITLE: The Impact on Academic Medicine.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1978
NOTE: 11 p.
ABSTRACT: The impact of women on the field of academic
medicine is examined. The failure of women to have reached
positions of leadership is discussed and this failure is
accredited to social and professional discrimination. It is
noted that the leaders of American medicine today were
trained during or immediately following World War II.
However, at that time there existed tremendous professional
discrimination against women in admission to medical school
and social pressures to discourage women from professional
careers. The Veterans Administration and other government
agencies have been leaders in providing women access into
the field of medicine. It is suggested that this is due to
consistent enforcement over an extended period of time of
a nondiscriminatory, affirmative action policy. This
program has allowed an increasing number of women to follow
a path of upward mobility within the Veterans
Administration and government medical agencies. The
proportion of women in medicine is increasing rapidly and
this is viewed as one of the conditions necessary to insure
that women have a significant impact on academic medicine.
However, it is suggested that the fundamental problem
concerns how women see themselves and how the social group
views them in terms of their aspirations and capabilities.
(SF)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Futures-of-Society; Higher-Education;
Opinions-; Program-Descriptions; Selective-Admission; Sex
Stereotypes; Social-Discrimination; Women-Faculty; Womens
Education; Womens-Studies
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Access-to-Education; *Affirmative-Action;
*Females-; *Medical-Education; *Medicine-; *Sex
Discrimination
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