Gender, age and inequality in the professions

Introduction: themes, objectives and theoretical perspectives / Marta Choroszewicz and Tracey L. Adams -- Health professions -- Early-career doctors and in/justice in work : the invisibility of gender in a "male" profession / Antero Olakivi and Sirpa Wrede -- "Not that many female med students want to pursue surgery" : gender, ethnicity and the life course in medical students' specialty choices / Tracey L. Adams and Eugena Kwon -- Intergenerational dynamics among women and men in nursing / Marci D. Cottingham and Janette S. Dill -- "Male" ficence or "miss" understandings? : exploring the relationship between gender, young healthcare professionals, social media, and professionalism / Patricia Neville -- The legal professions -- Launching careers in law: entry to first jobs after law school / Fiona Kay -- Do gender regimes matter?: converging and diverging career prospects among young French and Swiss lawyers / Isabel Boni-Le Goff, Nicky Le Feuvre, Grégoire Mallard, Eléonore Lépinard & Sandrine Morel -- A life course approach to workplace discrimination and employment : evidence from a U.S. national sample of women and men lawyers / Gabriele Plickert -- Fathers in private law practice in Finland : reconciling work and family life for male lawyers from different generations / Marta Choroszewicz -- Further professions -- 40 years of gender inequality among men and women in high-prestige occupations : does the story differ among the young? / Charlotta Magnusson and Magnus Nermo -- Age-gender relations in the academic profession : putting the challenges of early career academics into context / Jeff Hearn and Liisa Husu -- A young man's game : age and gender in technology jobs / Christianne Marie Corbett -- Women in engineering : experiences of discrimination across age cohort / Tracey L. Adams -- Conclusions -- Conclusion: findings, future research and policy recommendations / Tracey L. Adams and Marta Choroszewicz -- Index.