Women's Content in Social Work Curricula: Separate but Equal?

Abstract

There has been an ongoing debate on whether content on women's issues should be taught in a separate course or integrated throughout the social work curriculum. This study of the knowledge and attitudes of 70 undergraduate social work majors found that all the students had similar attitudes toward women's rights and feminism, but those who had taken a separate course had greater knowledge of female biological processes and the social and historical forces that have affected women.