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Wow, 50/50 distribution between male/female on new midwifes, not exactly like the IT world in the west...

• DanBC 8y ago
  You make a tedious point that's not worth addressing, but it's important to point out that even in Midwiferey men get promoted faster than women, and get promoted higher than women. In England in September 2016 in band 5 there were 2301 women midwives and 11 men midwives. At band 8c there are 11 women midwives and 2 male midwives. That ratio at band 5 isn't maintained as you move up the bandings - as you increase money and management responsibility. We see more men and fewer women, despite the very much larger pool of women to chose from.
  • albertgoeswoof 8y ago
    Men in your case is 2 people, you can’t really use sample size to compare. To be honest you’d have to be incredible to succeed as a male midwife as almost all expectant mothers will prefer a female midwife.
    • thiago_fm 8y ago
      Hi Mr. "goes woof", 1. Yes, you can. His comparison works. 2. No, they usually don't have a choice.
      • hdfbdtbcdg 8y ago
        In most countries you can ask for a different doctor/nurse/midwife.
  • belorn 8y ago
    "[study published] in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, women are no longer at a disadvantage when applying for tenure-track positions in university science departments. In fact, the bias has now flipped: Female candidates are now twice as likely to be chosen as equally qualified men." And what do people usually reply? There is so few women in university science departments that the quality of women that manage to survive in such discriminate environment is higher than among men. So lets copy paste the same for midwifery. The reason men get promoted faster is because the quality of men that manage to survive in such discriminate environment is higher than among women. I will add that midwifery do stand out in gender segregation data. Using Swedish data it is the single worst segregated profession with around 99.7% and in higher education it was the only program last year where every single student (100%) was of the same gender. People who care about combating gender segregation do a great disservice in ignoring the worst offender.
  • hdfbdtbcdg 7y ago
    Are you also opposed to efforts to get more female developers?
• pjmlp 8y ago
  Depends on the region. Some areas, specially consultancy agencies, do have a better M/F distribution than coding silos.