Has anyone ever seen that episode of Scrubs where Elliot (who is a girl) is being pressured into joining the pediatrics or obstetrician department at the hospital? I'm not sure if that's the correct terminology, but anyway. She was all upset because she thought that the other doctors were being sexist by assuming that all women are only good in those two departments. Fields? I think it's fields. But my point is, who wants to have a stupid man as your OB/GYN? Not that I've ever been to an OB/GYN, but I'm just saying that men do not have a serious understanding of the female body and the way it feels. Especially in the field of obstetrics.
Originally, midwives helped women give birth, not doctors. But once medical education began to evolve and only men were allowed to go to school, the practice of midwifery was greatly diminished.
I'm trying REALLY hard to sound smart and grown-up. Sorry if i say stupid things.
Anyway, the point is that men can't really coach women in labor, because they will never experience labor. Or any kind of menstrual pain, for that matter. So let men be neurologists, pediatricians, surgeons, emergency doctors, and family practice doctors.
But leave the lady stuff to the ladies.
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You + me are going to have a kick-awesome ladies' health clinic someday, I just know it!
ReplyDeletethis is a really interesting subject, meme. i've had friends (women) in med school tell me that women do get pressure to go into ob-gyn and pediatrics specialties, and also that these specialties are considered lame. there's a very clear pecking order in the world of doctors: surgeons are the top of the heap; it's super competitive to get into surgery, and it's very, very macho and cutthroat. somewhere at the bottom is ob-gyn and pediatrics, down there with general practitioners.
ReplyDeleteso yeah, it makes sense that women would be preferable practicing that area of medicine. but then that area of medicine is devalued as soft, undesirable, lame, giving up. it's women's work.
another case of work traditionally performed by women being devalued in the professional sphere.