How come women are more likely to become Walmart workers than doctors compared to men? Here are some contributing factors:
Girls are taught to see doctors as men
Girls receive less pressure to excel in science
Girls are taught to be more squeamish while boys are permitted to make messes
Maintaining a professional career is harder without maternity leave
Employers may view the prospect of having to pay maternity leave as a business risk
Women may avoid academia due to a fear of not being taken seriously
Girls are discouraged from occupying positions of authority
Women may fear not being taken seriously by patients
Girls are often told not to worry about their careers and to focus on marriage instead
That stat wasn’t even real when it was published.
The data from that study didn’t even compare similar fields.
It compared a Walmart worker to a doctor lol.
It was a wild study.
How come women are more likely to become Walmart workers than doctors compared to men? Here are some contributing factors:
Girls are taught to see doctors as men
Girls receive less pressure to excel in science
Girls are taught to be more squeamish while boys are permitted to make messes
Maintaining a professional career is harder without maternity leave
Employers may view the prospect of having to pay maternity leave as a business risk
Women may avoid academia due to a fear of not being taken seriously
Girls are discouraged from occupying positions of authority
Women may fear not being taken seriously by patients
Girls are often told not to worry about their careers and to focus on marriage instead
You were clearly thinking of mechanical engineers, I get those confused all the time as well.
Graduating medical classes have been majority female for 20 years now.
If anything, the user you responded to was demonstrating subconscious biases against female doctors lol
Way worse than that.
What? Lol
Cool. Drag guesses that means they must have been majority male up until 21 years ago. That explains why most doctors were still male 15 years ago.
OK, chief.