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Because medicine is a social thing that involves meeting and interviewing patients on a daily basis in order to restore and nourish them back to health. It invo

Because medicine is a social thing that involves meeting and interviewing patients on a daily basis in order to restore and nourish them back to health. It involves a lot of daily interaction with the outside world (it's not an isolated, non-human field; there's a lot of society in it, even as you get increasingly technical). That matches female predispositions exactly.

JoeAltmaier 11y ago
Imaginary female dispositions. Because guys do it too. So not strictly female at all.
douche 11y ago
And yet surgeons are still primarily male. This article[1] I found interesting, since it trots out just about all of the same rationalizing explanations that the programming discussion uses. [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3706651/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3706651/
- facepalm 11y ago
  Because you can not walk away in the middle of a surgery to pick up your kids from school. Simple as that...
- Al-Khwarizmi 11y ago
  The example of surgeons helps your parent comment's point... among doctors, surgeons (together with radiologists and a few others) are among those with the smallest social contact with patients and their families. During most surgeries, the patient can't even speak!
danso 11y ago
Women make up roughly half of biology graduate students and 40% of postdocs; those degrees aren't inherently more "social" than other technical fields. http://news.mit.edu/2014/research-reveals-gender-gap-nations-biology-labs-0630 http://news.mit.edu/2014/research-reveals-gender-gap-nations...