Wendy, I think Prof Black does cover some of the issues that you raise - she says in the article:

'She said medicine had to face up to the problem and find ways of helping women doctors balance work and family...the problem is how to make it possible for [women] to be really effective. "At the moment, women aren't going into specialties that are the more demanding. So we need to look at how those specialties are practised."

I think what's interesting about this is the concern that doctors may lose political power - so says a lot about the demands of political involvement - and the gendered nature of politics - as well as clinical.

Regards,
Jeanelle

>
> From: wendy rogers <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2004/08/04 Wed PM 11:23:21 GMT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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
> --- Lee Hall <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/health/3527184.stm
> >
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