Feminization of migrations?

The feminization of medicine.

A GENERATION AGO A WOMAN’S ROLE IN MEDICINE WAS THAT OF A patient, and the thought of devoting an entire issue to the subject of gender was unheard of. But much has changed since 1970, when only 8% of practicing physicians and 13% of medical students were women. In the past 30 years, the white coat has opened to increasing numbers of women interested in pursuing a career in medicine. Bytheyear2...

Feminization of Medicine

Dear Editor, Data from the year 2011 on more than 370,000 practicing physicians in Brazil reveal that female physicians account for approximately 20% of those aged 60 years or more and about 50% (≤ 29 years = 53.3% the majority!) in the age range younger than 40 years1. Regarding Cardiology, in 2008 women represented 27.3% of those approved by the Examination Board to obtain the title of Specia...

Incomplete testicular feminization syndrome.

A three and half year old girl presented to us with bilateral symmetrical swellings in the upper part of each labium majus. These were noted by her mother at birth. There was no history of any case of abnormal genitalia or inguinal hernia in her maternal aunts. Neither was there any record of intake of drugs like alcohol, hydantoins or cimetidine by the mother during pregnan On physical examina...

Testicular Feminization Syndrome

Testicular feminization syndrome (TFS) represents a well-defined form of male pseudohermaphroditism. The patients are of female legal sex. The habitus is completely and often attractively feminine, with well-developed breasts. There is absence of axillary and pubic hair. The external genitalia are female but with a blind vagina. At laparotomy the uterus and Fallopian tubes are found to be absen...

Feminist Explanations for the Feminization of Poverty