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(Sage Studies in International Sociology [44].) Edited by Elianne Riska and Katarina Wegar. 196 pp. Newbury Park, Calif., Sage, 1993. $19.95. ISBN 0-8039-8903-2.

The audience for this book is medical sociologists, policy makers and planners concerned with health work-force issues, and those who would encourage the professional development of women. The studies in this book not only contribute to empirical knowledge of sex as a factor in the division of labor in medicine, but also challenge existing sociological approaches to the study of professionals.

The first four chapters focus on women physicians in the United States, India, Britain, and Finland. Although there is a fairly well marked segregation of the sexes according to specialty and prestige in each country, variations are quite evident. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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