During the years from 1965 to 1974, the percentage of working woman in each health and medical profession like physician, dentist and pharmacist increased, especially among the age group of 25-29 and 30-34 in woman's life-stage. This was reported one of the authors of this article J. Kusakari, in the Journal of Public Health Practice of 1978 (Vol. 42, No. 3).
In this article, the trend of working women among those health professions was observed during the years of 1975-1984 as a succeeding data.
As everyone knows, the last decade was the International Women's years which was nominated by the United Nations. Therefore, some different patters will be expected. Since 1982, the reporting system of the survey of physician, dentist and pharmacist was changed from every year to every two years. Accordingly, 1984 is the latest data of this kind.
Through the analysis, the following findings were observed;
1. The percentage of woman in each health profession has been increasing.
2. The highest percentage was physician, followed by dentist and pharmacist.
3. The decrease of the age group of 30-40 has diminished gradually.
4. The curve of working male was flat and that of female was shown as Wtype.
5. The transfer for upper age group of 5-10 was observed during these 10 years, Generally speaking, the influence of the International Women's years was recognized among working women of health and medical professions.
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