When Waiting is Women’s Work

Margaret Waltz, “Waiting on Others: Gender in the Medical Waiting Room,” Sociological Forum, 2017 What happens in a hospital waiting room? From one perspective, not a lot. But from another perspective, medical waiting rooms are emotionally-fraught spaces where individuals constantly identify and play out social scripts. Individuals follow sign-in procedures, wait on doctors, choose how … Continue reading When Waiting is Women’s Work