Social Work

Paper Summary:

The paper relates that the field of social work is a nurturing and caring profession that has drawn women to its ranks since the inception of the science. The paper discusses what social work is and explores the history of the social work field and the women that were instrumental in its development. The paper explores how women contribute positive elements to the field of social work today and shows how female social workers may be better equipped to empathize with the client than their male counterparts.

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"Around the world children and adults are aided by social workers. Whether it is an elderly women living alone who needs help with her Medicare paperwork or a child in foster care as his parents try to overcome drug addictions, social workers are woven into the fabric of society on many different levels. The field of social work is a nurturing and caring profession that has drawn women to its ranks since the inception of the science. It is one of the few professions that women have been involved in from the beginning and continue to provide support and strength to it today."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Challenging gender roles: the impact on female social work students of working with abused women. (Special section: domestic violence and social work education). Journal of Social Work Education; 3/22/2003; Buchbinder, Eli
• From moral to professional authority: secularism, social work, and middle-class women's self construction in World War I Britain.Journal of Women's History; 6/22/1998; Woollacott, Angela
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• Women in social work http://www.onderzoekinformatie.nl/en/oi/vrouwenstudies/vrouwenbeweging/OND1301802/

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