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Edited by Emily Friedman. 285 pp. New York, United Hospital Fund of New York, 1994. $20. ISBN 1-881277-17-8.

Women dominate the health care industry. As providers they make up more than 80 percent of the health care work force, and as consumers they average one third more visits to physicians than men. Moreover, almost all home health care, including the care of elderly parents, disabled children, and chronically ill relatives, is provided by daughters, daughters-in-law, wives, sisters, and sisters-in-law. None of this information is new.

What is new is the increased participation of women in the parts of the health care industry that have traditionally been the domain of men. In 1970, 9 percent of medical students were . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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