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Too Few Men Becoming Doctors in UK
posted by Scott on Saturday July 06, @02:27PM
from the news dept.
News Serge sent us this BBC article and excerpts from the article: "Too few men are training to become doctors, the British Medical Association's annual meeting was told on Wednesday...For the first time ever, more women than men graduated from medical schools...Six out of ten present students are women, according to figures, and some are worried that medicine may become overly-dominated by women in the future...[Stephen Sanders] said that just as it had been wrong in the past when the profession was male-dominated, it was equally wrong that the pendulum should swing too far the other way. "

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About The Norm (Score:2)
by Thomas on Saturday July 06, @02:44PM EST (#1)
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For medical schools, "Six out of ten present students are women." Fifty percent more women than men, hmmmm... That's pretty close to the proportions for colleges and universities in general in the US.

Like I've said before, given the atmosphere of rabid, anti-male hate, I sure wouldn't want to have to go to college or university today. Time to start worrying more about the enemies within our borders?
Re:About The Norm (Score:1)
by LadyRivka (abrouty@wells.edu) on Saturday July 06, @07:40PM EST (#2)
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Like I've said before, given the atmosphere of rabid, anti-male hate, I sure wouldn't want to have to go to college or university today. Time to start worrying more about the enemies within our borders?

Trust me, I attend an all-female college. I have plenty of enemies within campus borders, especially b/c I can't keep my yap shut. The men on campus (profs, janitors, security guards, cafeteria workers) are scared to death of their female colleagues...it seems like I'm the only girl they feel comfortable talking to. There's this sense of guilt up there @ being male- the "we-dominated-history-for-four-millenia-and-now-th e-girls-have-the-right-to-beat-us-up" syndrome. I try to snap them out of it, but can't.

OK...My personal opinion?? More males drop out of school than do females, at every level from HS on. Also, women are given the push into math/science fields...thus accounting for the 60/40 ratio.

-Rivka

Learning to Adjust.
Re:About The Norm (Score:1)
by Dan Lynch (dan047@sympatico.ca) on Sunday July 07, @02:51AM EST (#3)
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You know, I could seriously see some Femiwhore teacher, purposely not teaching her 'boys' to read. Reading is the key, and if you look at all oppressed classes or races the literacy ability was no doubt a commonality. And the boys can not or do not read. I have no proof of my theory mind you, but I do think its an important feature, and one that coincides with whats happening currently. I know some female teachers and they have been indoctrinated to hate boys. I kid you not, but these chicks are not rocket scientists, none of them challenge the status quo.

And for those guys who have problems with being men and having feelings of guilt (geez) tell them to e-mail me as soon as possible. Holy god they should be suing for sexual harrassment and hostile working conditions; christ almighty.
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Dan Lynch
Re:About The Norm (Score:1)
by Uberganger on Monday July 08, @03:57AM EST (#7)
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On the subject of reading, there was a documentary on TV here in the UK last year which explored this issue. It concerned the increasing tendency here in the UK to introduce children to formal language training at an ever earlier age - sometimes as young as three. It addressed the issue of boys' problems and the so-called 'gender gap'. It found that studies done as far back as the 1970s showed that introducing children to formal language education at too early an age was detrimental to their education, and particularly to the education of boys. It also found that in countries that didn't start formal language education until the age of 6, not only were those children out-performing UK children by the age of 9, but there was no gender gap worth speaking of. Sounds to me like someone doesn't want boys to do too well at anything.
Their real concerns? (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Sunday July 07, @04:55AM EST (#4)
It seems to me that they only touch on the real reason for their concern at the very end of the article:

"He said that the demand for flexible working arrangements as women doctors started families would hit the NHS harder than previously if a higher proportion of doctors were women."

Women tend to be GP's, work part-time, and avoid the specialities that require a greater commitment of time (in both study and working hours) in order that they can have "flexible working arrangements."

This means that if women doctors come to dominate without a drastic change in their study and work choices, that there will be a shortage of specialists and full-time doctors.


Gender Political Spoils System (Score:1)
by cshaw on Sunday July 07, @11:32AM EST (#5)
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The gender political spoils system gives females privilege in employment in all of the traditionally male occupations while, at the same, time using the same political spoils system to exclude males from traditionally female occupations such as nursing. Men are a conquered and subjugated gender in North America and, apparantly, in Great Britain, and are treated with the insolent disrespect by females in these countries due to slaves who do not have the will nor courage to ursurp the tyranny of their slavemasters!
Re:Gender Political Spoils System (Score:1)
by Dan Lynch (dan047@sympatico.ca) on Sunday July 07, @01:38PM EST (#6)
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Have they started blaming men for being "to lazy, to become doctors" yet?
Dan Lynch
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