Summary
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This brief collection of cases is designed to help students and employees gain a hands-on understanding of gender issues in the workplace and to provide the necessary tools to handle those issues. Based on actual legal cases, nationally reported incidents, and personal interviews, the case studies in Gender in the Workplace address the range and types of gender issues in the workplace. Completely revised and updated, this Second Edition provides a more international dimension to reinforce the varying impact of different cultures on gender issues.
Medical Mentoring
Medical Mentoring
Case Overview
The primary subject of this case is the professional development of women and the potential value of mentoring in that process. A meeting of women physicians provides the setting. Women in medical school and at the initial stages of their careers share with more established women doctors a discussion of the current professional situation of women in medicine, including general practice, highly specialized subfields, and academic medicine. The discussion ranges over a variety of problems encountered, with supporting data for the major points. Income, work demands, specialties, advancement in academic medicine, and places of employment all appear different for male and female physicians. The case requires a minimal background in organizational culture and professional advancement issues.
Body of Case
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