As of 2021, only 37% of active doctors were women, but it was on an upward trend. I wonder if the disparity can help explain some of it, i.e. men are more likely to pursue the profession, but the women who do pursue it are more likely to be talented and successful at it - or they just work harder because they need to overcome biases.
You know the old saying, “What do you call the doctor who graduated last in his class? …A doctor.” Maybe women are more driven to not be the worst doctors. Maybe male doctors can scrape by their whole careers and still be respected and successful for some reason.
I noticed it’s “last in HIS class” and don’t disagree but I suppose to be fair we should use “their class.” Aiming for the day when women will be distributed throughout the bell curve.
Yeah as an engineer I’ve noticed that the women in the field are generally better at it than the men. At the top levels it evens out, but at the bottom it’s all guys (and one lady I know, abysmal engineer, just as bad as the men I had to carry in school alongside her). My theory has always been that some people really want to be an engineer or love aspects of the field, people who really love this stuff will be happy to be doing it even if you stick out like a sore thumb. Meanwhile only men seem to go to engineering school because they were fine at math and want money and other reasons that tend to leave you a bad engineer.
And I think it goes both ways. I never had a male teacher growing up who was bad unless he was a coach, music major, or a creep, and the music majors were generally great guys too. Men rarely teach children unless they love teaching children
As of 2021, only 37% of active doctors were women, but it was on an upward trend. I wonder if the disparity can help explain some of it, i.e. men are more likely to pursue the profession, but the women who do pursue it are more likely to be talented and successful at it - or they just work harder because they need to overcome biases.
You know the old saying, “What do you call the doctor who graduated last in his class? …A doctor.” Maybe women are more driven to not be the worst doctors. Maybe male doctors can scrape by their whole careers and still be respected and successful for some reason.
One issue is that in certain cultures men (sons) in particular are very strongly encouraged to become doctors even in they are not in medicine.
Being considered a failure if you aren’t a doctor, or attempting to be one, doesn’t necessarily breed great doctors.
I noticed it’s “last in HIS class” and don’t disagree but I suppose to be fair we should use “their class.” Aiming for the day when women will be distributed throughout the bell curve.
Yeah as an engineer I’ve noticed that the women in the field are generally better at it than the men. At the top levels it evens out, but at the bottom it’s all guys (and one lady I know, abysmal engineer, just as bad as the men I had to carry in school alongside her). My theory has always been that some people really want to be an engineer or love aspects of the field, people who really love this stuff will be happy to be doing it even if you stick out like a sore thumb. Meanwhile only men seem to go to engineering school because they were fine at math and want money and other reasons that tend to leave you a bad engineer.
And I think it goes both ways. I never had a male teacher growing up who was bad unless he was a coach, music major, or a creep, and the music majors were generally great guys too. Men rarely teach children unless they love teaching children