Setting the record straight: social work is not a female-dominated profession.(Commentary)

From: Social Work | Date: April 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

The social work profession is frequently described as a "female-dominated profession" in the social work and other professional literature. Most frequently social work is grouped with nursing, teaching, and library science as similarly female-dominated professions (Stromberg, 1988). However, representing social work as a female-dominated profession is a mischaracterization of social work's past and present. This commentary seeks to debunk the myth of social work as a female-dominated profession. Such a challenge is not new (Giovannoni & Purvine, 1974; Meyer, 1982), and the myth's ...

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