Gender Bias in the Environmental Health Profession

A survey of 500 environmental health professionals in seven southern states (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana) was conducted in 1990 to assess gender perceptions of: work values; gender segregation in the work environment; the extent to which re...

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Published in:Journal of environmental health 1992-05, Vol.54 (6), p.15-17
Main Authors: Davis, Trenton G., Lao, Y.J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior
discrimination
Employment discrimination
Environmental health
Environmental Sciences
Environmental Sciences & Ecology
Environmental surveys
FEATURES
Gender
Gender bias
Health care industry
Health surveys
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Men
Perception
Prestige
Professions
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Q1
Sanitarians
Science & Technology
Sexes
Social aspects
Social research
Women
Work environments
Working women
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Summary:A survey of 500 environmental health professionals in seven southern states (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana) was conducted in 1990 to assess gender perceptions of: work values; gender segregation in the work environment; the extent to which respondents perceive they are being "sheltered" in their work environment; how respondents perceive a supervisor on a personal or organizational level according to the supervisor's gender; and co-worker preference by gender. Results suggest that there is bias against females working in the environmental health field.
ISSN:0022-0892