Gender and supportive co-worker relations in the medical profession

Women's growing numerical representation in the professions has not necessarily translated into women being truly integrated in these occupations. Questionnaire data are used to examine whether female physicians are socially integrated in the male‐dominated profession of medicine in terms of th...

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Published in:Gender, work, and organization work, and organization, 2014, Vol.21 (1), p.1-17
Main Author: Wallace, Jean E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Arzt
co-worker support
Empathy
Erwerbstätiger
Erwerbstätigkeit
Females
Forecasts
Frau
Gender
Gender studies
Geschlechtsspezifik
Health care industry
Health Professions
Informelle Kommunikation
Kanada
Males
Medical personnel
Medicine
Mitarbeiter
Männerberuf
Peer relationships
Physicians
Professional relationships
Professions
Psychosozialer Faktor
Questionnaires
Sex
Social Support
Soziale Integration
Soziale Unterstützung
Soziales Netzwerk
Tokenism
Women
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Summary:Women's growing numerical representation in the professions has not necessarily translated into women being truly integrated in these occupations. Questionnaire data are used to examine whether female physicians are socially integrated in the male‐dominated profession of medicine in terms of the support they receive from their medical colleagues compared to male physicians. The literature on tokenism and homophily suggests that women in male‐dominated professions receive less support than their male colleagues, whereas the social support literature predicts that women typically receive more emotional support than men but less informational and instrumental support. The results of this study shed light on the complex and multi‐layered ways in which gender is relevant to our understanding of the extent to which co‐workers provide empathy, information and assistance to one another.
ISSN:0968-6673
1468-0432
DOI:10.1111/gwao.12007