Attitudes of women and men physicians

M. Heins, J. Hendricks, L. Martindale, S. Smock, M. Stein and J. Jacobs

American Journal of Public Health, 1979, vol. 69, issue 11, 1132-1139

Abstract: Attitudinal data obtained from interviewing random samples of women and men physicians in metropolitan Detroit indicated that women were generally more liberal and egalitarian than men. Older women were more liberal/egalitarian than older men while younger men were closer in attitudes to younger women. Within specialties, women and men physicians frequently held similar attitudinal scores; however, controlling for age, sex accounted for more variation than did specialty. A weighted combination of variables which together most significantly discriminated between age and sex subgroups pointed to a sensitivity dimension. This was stronger in the women; yet men demonstrating a similar sensitivity were found in almost every age and specialty grouping. Although younger men physicians are less conservative than older men physicians, both younger and older women physicians demonstrated strong liberalism/egalitarianism.

Date: 1979
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.69.11.1132

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