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70. Why Are There Still So Few Female Surgeons?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Women Physicians and Women Nurses in Neurosurgery

Study: Surgeons believe that nurses expect different things from women physicians than they do of the men. Women doctors describe baking cookies and bringing in brownies to gain cooperation for patient care activities, author says. "The reason we wrote this paper was to say this is additional labor that women are having to do"

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