Practice and life patterns of women and men physicians. 1975.

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Practice and life patterns of women and men physicians. 1975.

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This study was undertaken to examine the career and work patterns of women physicians in comparison to both men physicians and nonphysician women neighbor controls. Of particular interest were factors involved in productivity, life-cycle decisions, "role overload," and "role conflict" of men and women physicians, as well as demographic and attitudinal data on all three groups. A 207-item questionnaire was administered by trained interviewers to 87 female physicians, 95 male physicians, and 87 female neighbors of the female doctors who acted as a control group in the tricounty metropolitan Detroit area in 1974-1975. Most of the neighbors did not have occupations outside the home. Topics covered in the interview included demographic information, data on the respondent's spouse and parents, educational and occupational history, household division of labor, life-cycle decisions, role conflict issues, and religious and moral issues; attitudinal scales related to women in medicine, the structure of the medical profession, social change, and women's roles in the family, the professions, and in the larger society. The Murray Center holds computer-accessible data and copies of interviews from men and women physicians and women neighbor controls.

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Radcliffe College. Henry A. Murray Research Center

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The Henry A. Murray Research Center of Radcliffe College, (formerly the Radcliffe Data Resource and Research Center, 1976-1979) was founded by Radcliffe College in 1976 as a national repository for social science data on the changing life experiences of American women, and to sponsor scholarly research on the impact of social change on women's lives. From the description of Records of the Henry A. Murray Research Center, 1976-1988 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id...

Heins, Marilyn

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