This story is troubling for a number of reasons... Female doctors are more likely to go part-time Female doctors are more likely than their male peers to shift to part-time work or stop working a few years after completing their medical training, according to a recent study published in the journal JAMA Network Open. Women, moreover, are more likely than men to cite family as a consideration in determining their work status. The authors found that female doctors were far more likely than their male counterparts to not be working full-time (22.6 percent versus 3.6 percent), with a clear disparity between women with kids and men with kids (30.6 percent versus 4.6 percent). In the first year after medical training, men and women had a 9.6 percentage-point gap in their full-time employment — but that gender gap stretched to 38.7 points at six years post-training. This throws into question, what is the value of educating and training a female doctor if she's going to be out of the workforce in a few years? It seems to me, if we need more doctors working more hours, we should at least stop giving affirmative action to women in Med School. Seems like a waste of training.
Wow You do realize that across the board in any career, women are more likely to leave for family rearing? That's not just medicine. That's an issue with a society that, among other things, make child care and flexibility for parents next to impossible. If female doctors who make more than enough to cover the costs of child care can't catch a break, who can?
Which part of the difference between part time and out of the workforce do you not understand ? And do you have actual evidence that there are quotas for women in Med School.
The point isn't the difference between part time and out of the workforce, it's full time versus part time or out. In a world of limited medical school slots, is society served by applicants who will, after graduation, drop out or reduce their presence in the workforce?
Well, democrat party logic, it won't matter if they work less hours they damn well better get equal pay.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/200505/the-trouble-day-care?amp Which one of you will tell your daughter that she cannot go to medical school or that she must put your grandchildren into full-time daycare? I had boys, but had I had a girl, without doubt I would have encouraged her to get her degree and I would have encouraged her to put her young family first.
Well, if retirement is a financial decision, and women overall do better health-wise and longevity-wise, it seems plausible that those women would ultimately work more years at the end of their career even if they take a year or two off early on for their babies. In America doctors take on debt that must be paid off, and we have a glut of foreign medical grads who want to come here anyway, so there isn't really much concern over a lack of supply unless Trump stops immigration of skilled workers or something. I prefer female doctors as a man - just easier to take their advice as concern rather than condescension for me, and we want to have a variety of doctors to cater to a variety of patients. Women just, on average, are more likely to have an aptitude for bedside manner and are less threatening in the vulnerable positions patients are in. A female who has been raped might not want a male gynecologist, for example. And as for doctors who work part time - it's nice to have a doctor who is rested and not overworked. Frankly, healthcare needs to include more nurse practitioners for uncomplicated routine visits anyway. Where are all of these part-time positions anyway? It's a millennials dream - to work to live rather than live to work.
