Psychosocial aspects of women's lives: work and family/personal life and life cycle issues.
Beginning in the past century and continuing to evolve into the twenty-first century, there have been dramatic changes in women's work and personal/family lives within the United States. These changes have particularly affected white, middle-class women and women in medicine and other professions. Physicians in fields whose practitioners are predominantly female and/or who treat primarily women and families need to be aware of the scope and nature of these changes and to recognize that their own personal experiences and values might differ from those of women of different generations as well as different socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds.
Shrier
Diane K
DK
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20037, USA. diane.shrier.med.64@aya.yale.edu
Shrier
Lydia A
LA
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D011788:Quality of Life; D014481:United States; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*; D016387:Women's Health