title: Professional issues for women.
abstract: Status, compensation, socialization, mentoring, and assertiveness are discussed, along with peer attitudes and cultural expectations of professional women. Particular attention is paid to the careers of women in academic medicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Nadelson
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D010822:Physicians, Women / Q000523:psychology; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*; D014931:Women, Working / Q000523:psychology*