Recently, there has been a change in the field of medicine that will alter the shape and appearance of healthcare for years to come. In the United States, women are embarking on careers in the medical field in remarkable numbers. The percentage of men and women applying to medical school has been about the same in recent years. However, lately, the number of women applying to medical school has increased dramatically.

Since the feminist movement occurred, the vision of what women should do for a living has changed enormously. In fact, other careers like law and engineering are also seeing more women entering the arena than ever. The fire lit by the feminist movement was not only below women. Society as a whole has been asked to think and behave differently. Medical schools are expected to give places to more women. Anti-discrimination laws have also opened up many traditionally male areas of study, although enforcement of the laws often takes many years and can at times be spotty.

You will not find any recent data available on a dropout rate among medical school students. Although in previous years there were more women who dropped out of school than men, these women did not drop out for academic reasons. Women currently in the medical field assume that the dropout rate is probably the same these days for men and women because their numbers have gone from being a minority to being a much larger minority than they were. As more women are entering the medical field, many of the old traditions that were discriminatory have been left behind.

A good example? There is the teacher who opened his class by telling a joke. He felt it was friendly to tell a little icebreaker. The joke was: which of these three things is wrong; woman, sex, an egg or a rug, and he replied “Sex, because you can’t beat sex.” Although this joke is quite tame compared to some of the things these women hear on a daily basis, it does not help to think that women are equal to men. These practices and jokes can come to an end as soon as women start to stand up and show that they are capable of doing so.

Not only are women dealing with the crude humor of men, there are also other things that don’t make sense like the case of the student who was not allowed to participate in a physical examination of a male patient because he would be naked and she would be able to see their genitals. But in another room not too far away, the woman’s husband was allowed to conduct an examination on a woman. There was also the topic of the intake interview where a woman was always asked about her professional perspective, as well as her perspective on marriage and building a family, whereas these questions were never asked of men. Other issues include the fact that there are too few women on medical colleges and admissions committees, as well as the typical belief that women are less likely to practice once they graduate, which has prevented them from many women enter specialized fields. especially surgical areas.

One of the most common questions in an admissions interview was whether a woman would choose marriage or career, and she is denied if this particular question led to her being denied access to medical school. They believe that some male interviewers will use regardless of the woman’s response against their response. For example, if a student claims that if he had children, he would have someone to take care of them while he worked, the interviewer would suggest that he stay home and have babies. If she says she is raising her children, the interviewer will argue that the candidate does not have the necessary commitment.

In more and more interview sessions, it became clear that the perception is that female doctors are not as objective as male doctors. From time to time, this perception has been exposed as just another stereotype. A woman in her second year of medical school indicated that she had witnessed several ruthless women and some emotionally charged men, yet the opposite was generally accepted as a component of the ways men and women differ.

A dean of a prominent medical school commented that women bring a lot to the field and that the traits that are seen most in women are indeed positive and make them good doctors. Women are often trained to be expressive and emotional, which can end up being an advantage for a physician in medical practice. Males tend to be more aggressive, which is a trait that can work against them in medicine. But, it affirms that no characteristic is a fact in either of the two sexes.