Greater Quantities Of American Women Contemplate A Career In Medicine
These days, more American women are changing history by opting to choose medical
careers in record breaking numbers, which is going to alter the way medicine is perceived. In recent years, the number of female applicants and male applicants that were accepted into medical schools were at an approximate fifty-fifty ratio.
Today, however, females are submitting a far greater number of applications. Two major causes are contributing to this fact.
The first is the feminist movement, which has shifted society's lens. At one time the work of women was clearly delineated from the work of men. Today, the lines are pretty blurry.
In fact, other career paths such as law and engineering are also seeing more women entering the arena than ever before. Not only are women applying for these spots, but the medical schools are being pressured more than ever to accept more women.
Antidiscrimination laws and regulations have made tremendous strides in terms of modifying the treatment of women in the workplace and in schools. The laws have been put into place slowly and the progress has not been linear, but haphazardly.
While schools often track dropout information, there are currently no statistics on the number of women who fail to complete medical school. The data that has been recorded in previous years showed more women dropping out than men, but it was mostly for non-academic reasons.
Females currently in medical school state that they believe that today, the number of females who quit is probably close to the same as the number of males who quit since females can better deal with being a minority now that the minority is larger than it used to be. There is power in numbers.
As more and more women enter the field, they are banning together to demand discriminatory behaviors come to a stop Some of them are subtle and some are more obvious.
One example is the way that professors or instructors at university would speak in class, using language or jokes that might be demeaning or degrading to female students. "Which of these items doesn't belong? An egg, sex, woman, or rug" When the class didn't know, he explained, "It's sex.
Because you can't beat sex." Compared to many of the sexist comments that women are subjected to this may seem relatively mild but it won't change anyone's ideas of equality for women. It may be the women who get the last laugh when the disgusting practices of posting nude girlie pictures in lecture slides comes to an abrupt halt.
Unfortunately, it's not just sexual or insulting humor that is a problem for many women in medical school, that could at least be dealt with, it's the double-standard rules that women are faced with such as a recent student who was not allowed to observe an exam of a male patient during class due to his genitals being exposed. Her husband, who was also a medical student at the same school, was nearby conducting a pelvic exam on a female patient and no such objection was made. Besides the humiliation of this treatment, it's only women who are asked about how they will balance career and family during their admissions interviews.
No one asks male students. Additional factors that serve to hinder female med students are the lack of females employed by universities on staff since these positions are not keeping up with the rise in female students, the accepted notion that after females get their licenses, they might decide not to go into the medical field after all, and the exclusion of females in certain practices, such as surgery.
One of the most common questions in an admission interview was about whether a woman would choose marriage or career, and there is denial as to whether this particular question led to being denied access to medical school. The answer the women gives is irrelevant because some male interviewers will bar the woman's admission regardless.
The woman says she's isn't sure if she wants children, but if she did she would have someone watch them for her, the interviewer tells her she need to stay with her children. If a female indicates that she plans to have kids, the questioner will tell her he doesn't believe she is dedicated to the medical field.
After so many interviews were conducted in this manner, the feeling grew that female applicants were more sensitive than men. Now and then some interviewers claimed this was merely a stereotype. A woman who was in her second year of medical school indicated that she had witnessed a number of ruthless females and a few emotionally-charged males, however the reverse was usually accepted as a component of the ways in which men and women differ.
It has been said by some prominent figures that women have traits about them that bring something more to the medical field. When women are growing up it is more likely that they are taught to be more sensitive and open to other people's needs, which is a plus in modern medicine. Aggressiveness that is possessed by men isn't exactly a bad thing, but it isn't necessarily a good thing either.
by: John Chambers
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