Tag: gender roles

• Nature versus Princess Nurture

  I’ve often wondered how much of a role acculturation plays in modelling who we are. Am I a gynaecologist because my mother restricted my prairie play-things to a rather effeminate teddy bear named Girl and a doctor’s bag that probably wasn’t? Or did I choose to play with them -as opposed to, say, waving tree […]

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  December 6, 2013

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  children’s toys, gender expectations, gender roles, Goldieblox, women’s issues

• The Feminine Perspective?

  “Men and women think differently, doctor,” a patient said to me recently, shaking her head in response to some requested advice from me. “You of all people should know that.” It was stated with a look of smug authority, as if  to disagree would have been tantamount to an admission of professional incompetence. And while […]

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  June 21, 2013

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  differing gender world view., Female perspective, feminine approach, gender in medicine, gender roles, medical opinions, patient expectations, women’s health, women’s issues, words

• Gender

  I am a prisoner of my age, a hostage to my generation; I never thought I’d say that, but I suppose none of us do… We are as contemporary as our minds and experience will allow. My own epiphany came, as I recall, when a patient engaged me in a discussion of gender. I had not […]

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  January 18, 2013

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  Gender, gender discrimination, gender in medicine, gender neutral language, gender neutrality, gender roles, Societal norms