Women in hospital medicine in the United Kingdom: Glass ceiling, preference, prejudice or cohort effect?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 10-16

  McManus, I C ^a   Sproston, K A ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREER; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PHYSICIAN; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CAREER CHOICE; CAREER MOBILITY; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL SELECTION; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN; PREJUDICE;

EID: 0033987027     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.54.1.10     Document Type: Article

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