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.
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