Time to address gender discrimination and inequality in the health workforce

Human Resources for Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Newman, Constance ^a  

^a SONATEL Lot R73   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Discrimination; Gender; Health workforce; HRH; Labour rights; Occupational segregation; Stereotyping

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MALE; MANPOWER; SEXISM; SOCIOECONOMICS;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; MALE; SEXISM; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84900306414     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4491-12-25     Document Type: Note

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