k-man Wrote:
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> At a social dinner in the early 1990s—right, about
> 15 years ago—a male veterinarian was discussing
> his field with the rest of us at the table. He
> said that a big reason for the increasing shortage
> of vets around the country is that most who were
> going to veterinary school and becoming licensed
> vets were women, who had preference in admissions
> and financial aid, but the majority would drop out
> of the field within 10 years to have famblees.
>
> The problem continues. In my state alone, at
> least six medical schools operate, but only one
> vet school—and that's shared with another state.
> In other words, the veterinary slots are at a
> premium, and competition is intense to get in.
> This isn't to knock women entering the vet field,
> but it doesn't seem right to plan all along to
> work for only a few years after dropping out when
> you received preferential treatment to get that
> vet degree—and therefore kept someone else, male
> or perhaps a childfree female, from getting that
> school slot.
>
> Now back to doctors. This issue in the medical
> field exists in Britain as well, where not only do
> women receive preference in med school admission,
> but the schooling is broadly free to the student
> because of the acute need for doctors for the
> National Health Service there. Several months
> ago, an article in a British newspaper noted that
> female doctors spent an average of only 10 years
> in the field (that figure again) before dropping
> out or going part-time to have sprogs. Some
> taxpayer advocacy groups are starting to raise
> Cain about these women leaving the field so soon
> after receiving a heavily subsidized education in
> a chronically shorthanded field.
>
> Just a few days ago I saw on another (US) forum a
> comment by a med student that his class was told
> most female doctors work full-time in their field
> only for an average of 5 years here. Same reason:
> time to have kyds! Of course, you know how
> competitive getting into med school is. Feh, PS,
> and DrDanCorelli above have the right ideas.
>
> There's been a lot of noise about pressuring
> engineering and science programs at universities
> to admit more women, despite existing preferential
> practices designed to encourage women to take
> those majors. This issue will become acute in
> those fields as well if the do-gooders have their
> way—though at the rate offshoring and outsourcing
> are advancing, none of this might matter in the US
> very soon.
Same stuff is probably true for nurses. Most are women. Nurse shortage? Are nurses dropping out to have kyds? If so, then shortage is artificial. Simply women do not work and rely on DUH to pay bills. No wonder many businesses are not willing to hire women of child bearing age. This forum is awesome. I can learn so much here.