The authors distributed a sex-role ideology questionnaire to practicing
psychiatrists, psychiatric residents, university students, and groups of
traditional and feminist women. Psychiatrists and psychiatric residents as
a group were significantly more feminist in their ideology than university
students and the traditional women's group but were less feminist than a
group of feminist women. There were no differences between practicing
psychiatrists and psychiatric residents. Overall, women were more feminist
than men and increasing age was found to be associated with increasingly
traditional ideology. These findings challenge the view that psychiatrists
as a group have traditional views that make them part of a traditional
medical power structure.Abstract Teaser