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70. Why Are There Still So Few Female Surgeons?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Women's Discrimination in the Medical Field

Margarvon wanted a better grasp of what was happening and also why it was happening. Changing how we all perceive women's behaviors is going to solve the problem, she says. Women surgeons are more likely to associate men with surgery and women with family medicine according to her research.

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