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FOR MANY WOMEN, SEEING A GYNEcologist easily outranks visiting the dentist as their least favorite doctor's appointment. A dentist sometimes dispenses pain; a gynecologist too often delivers humiliation. Not only must women lie submissively in stirrups; they frequently must also endure the abasing attitudes of their doctors -- 80% of...
That is just one of the grenades Smith lobs in his new book, Women and Doctors: A Physician's Explosive Account of Women's Medical Treatment -- and Mistreatment -- in America Today (Atlantic Monthly Press; $20.95). Male domination of the medical profession has bred a host of abuses, says Smith, 49...
Others say that sexism within the Review is not particular to the institution, but a reflection of attitudes towards women in the legal profession and in society in general.
"People at the Law Review judge each other in large part on how they speak; that the vocabulary of the profession comes more naturally to men is surely a function of something larger than the institutional atmosphere of the Law Review," Wolstein says.
"As a profession , the work that it entails does not interest me much," says Allan H. Erbsen '94 former head of Students for Tsongas and a member of the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard.