Women in surgery: Little change in gender equality in Japanese medical societies over the past 3 years

Surgery Today

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1202-1205

  Tomizawa, Yasuko ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gender equality; Japan Surgical Society; Japanese Association of Medical Sciences

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMALE COUNCILOR; FEMALE DIRECTOR; FEMALE PHYSICIAN; GENDER AND SEX; GENDER BIAS; GENDER EQUALITY; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NAMED GROUPS BY OCCUPATION; SEX RATIO; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN; SEXISM; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84884909479     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-012-0447-7     Document Type: Article

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