Abstract
Though little overt, "actionable" discrimination is apparent in medical schools, a "discriminatory environment" persists, in part because its structure is based on an understanding of "commitment" and "success" congruent with male--but not female--sex role stereotypes and familial roles. Professional commitment--one of the profession's most important criteria for judging a recruit's suitability and potential for success--is used to illustrate how women's choice of careers are channelled and constrained within medicine. Illustrative data are drawn from semi-structured interviews with administrators, faculty, and students in a nationwide sample of medical schools.
Keywords
MandateSample (material)Medical schoolPsychologySocial psychologySociologyMedical educationMedicinePolitical scienceLaw
Affiliated Institutions
Related Publications
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
This chapter centers on the role of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in promoting and protecting HIV-related human rights. It starts by recalling the rati...
BEING PROACTIVE: WHERE ACTION RESEARCH MEETS DESIGN RESEARCH
Information systems research has been criticized for having little influence on practice. One approach to achieving more relevance is to conduct research using appropriate resea...
Whose Text? Whose Context?
After a brief account of an old study on sociopolitical vs formalist styles of literary criticism and the lessons it taught about relating cultural objects to context, I turn to...
Publication Info
- Year
- 1978
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 430-440
- Citations
- 55
- Access
- Closed
External Links
Social Impact
Altmetric
PlumX Metrics
Social media, news, blog, policy document mentions
Citation Metrics
55
OpenAlex
Cite This
Patricia Gerald Bourne,
Norma Juliet Wikler
(1978).
Commitment and the Cultural Mandate: Women in Medicine.
Social Problems
, 25
(4)
, 430-440.
https://doi.org/10.2307/800495
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.2307/800495