As for the lack of family friendly policies, given that the majority of
people in fields such as diagnostic/procedural
cardiology and orthopaedics have been identified as male, this lack also
seems to be cyclically normative, in that it ensures these doctors, as male
people, are not expected to look after their children. Why does this
family-friendly aspect only come up as an issue when a discussion of "women
docs" entering the field is opened?

So in this subtopic, there seem to be two interrelated forces.  Women docs
don't enter because they do or they are expected to raise children; and
those men docs in these special areas have not expected themselves to do the
same.

Even if family-friendly policies were instituted, would they be deemed for
the benefit of women docs?  If so, and if the men docs thought "this is not
for me", which docs are most likely to be able to pull off meeting the
demands of the specialist profession?

----- Original Message -----
From: "wendy rogers" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 04 August 2004 19:23
Subject: Re: BBC: Women docs 'weakening' medicine


I agree, it is breath taking. My observations about why women do or
don't go into particular areas of medicine (diagnostic/procedural
cardiology, orthopaedics are amongst the stereotypes) are not that these
areas are 'demanding' in ways that women can't cope with, but that
factors like entrenched misogyny, reductionst and mechanistic
approaches, rigid training programs, lack of family friendly policies
and the potential tedium of the work are off putting. It is
disappointing to hear these kind of comments from a woman who is
presumably in a position of power such that she might move to challenge
some of the assumptions and make some real changes, rather than follow
the old boys line.
Wendy


Wendy Rogers
Associate Professor Medical Ethics & Health Law
Department of Medical Education
Flinders University, Adelaide
08 8204 3132

Practical Ethics for General Practice
W A Rogers, and A J Braunack-Mayer
OUP 2004: ISBN 0-19-852504-4


-----Original Message-----
From: Feminist Approaches to Bioethics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Birgitta N. Sujdak Mackiewicz
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 5:54 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: BBC: Women docs 'weakening' medicine

I'm quite simply speechless at this article for so
many reasons.  I presume that many others are as well
judging from the silence on the list.

Birgitta
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