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How women change medicine: a case study in a German hospital
In the last decade, Germany has seen a significant increase in the number of female physicians. Literature on the topic suggests that this so called “feminization of medicine” will engender changes in the profession’s structure and the practice of medicine, resulting in an augmenting demand for part-time work, more women in high level positions and a stronger patient-centered and humane care. In order to analyze how feminization has influenced medicine, I conducted qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 21 male and female physicians holding diverse positions in a department of Surgery, a Breast Center and an Internal and Integrative Medicine department of a hospital in the Ruhr area in Germany. Using qualitative content analysis as an analytical framework, this thesis explains that an increase in the number of women doctors has taken place in the departments, but that this has not yet caused for major transformations to come about. Due to the gendered substructure of the departments, part-time work, with the exception of the complementary and alternative medicine unit in the Breast Center, is difficult to accomplish as is the compatibility of work and family life. Furthermore, clear guidelines on the provision of care leave little room for change in the practice of medicine. Most physicians do not see room to alter matters, with which organizational structures, cultures and practices in the distinct departments are in many facets reproduced instead of transformed. It is, however, not the case that the feminization process has not engendered any change at all. But modifications are only allowed when consonant with the dominant organizational culture, structures and prevalent gender stereotypes. As this thesis shows, the increase in female physicians has thus not automatically caused for qualitative changes to take place. It is rather the interplay between the agency of the physicians and organizational cultures and structures that determines how the increase of female physicians is affecting the ...
How women change medicine: a case study in a German hospital
In the last decade, Germany has seen a significant increase in the number of female physicians. Literature on the topic suggests that this so called “feminization of medicine” will engender changes in the profession’s structure and the practice of medicine, resulting in an augmenting demand for part-time work, more women in high level positions and a stronger patient-centered and humane care. In order to analyze how feminization has influenced medicine, I conducted qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 21 male and female physicians holding diverse positions in a department of Surgery, a Breast Center and an Internal and Integrative Medicine department of a hospital in the Ruhr area in Germany. Using qualitative content analysis as an analytical framework, this thesis explains that an increase in the number of women doctors has taken place in the departments, but that this has not yet caused for major transformations to come about. Due to the gendered substructure of the departments, part-time work, with the exception of the complementary and alternative medicine unit in the Breast Center, is difficult to accomplish as is the compatibility of work and family life. Furthermore, clear guidelines on the provision of care leave little room for change in the practice of medicine. Most physicians do not see room to alter matters, with which organizational structures, cultures and practices in the distinct departments are in many facets reproduced instead of transformed. It is, however, not the case that the feminization process has not engendered any change at all. But modifications are only allowed when consonant with the dominant organizational culture, structures and prevalent gender stereotypes. As this thesis shows, the increase in female physicians has thus not automatically caused for qualitative changes to take place. It is rather the interplay between the agency of the physicians and organizational cultures and structures that determines how the increase of female physicians is affecting the ...
How women change medicine: a case study in a German hospital
Vader, Sarah (author) / Dobos, Gustav J.
2016-11-24
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