"Anyone who argues there should be "More women in medical school" needs to go visit a secretarial school. Completely filled with super smart women interested in typing and being secretaries."
"If secretarial school women found being doctors as interesting as they did being Secretaries, we wouldn't have any shortage of women being doctors."
same comment in 1950 when only 6% of doctors in the US were women (surprisingly, a lower number than in 1890), which was due to, surprise! male hostility to women in such a career, as we are seeing on gala display in this thread. in the case of medicine, the barriers were only broken through more forceful means than we see in tech, e.g. class action lawsuits and federal legislation.
"If secretarial school women found being doctors as interesting as they did being Secretaries, we wouldn't have any shortage of women being doctors."
same comment in 1950 when only 6% of doctors in the US were women (surprisingly, a lower number than in 1890), which was due to, surprise! male hostility to women in such a career, as we are seeing on gala display in this thread. in the case of medicine, the barriers were only broken through more forceful means than we see in tech, e.g. class action lawsuits and federal legislation.
lots of great background at https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2016/01/fight-women-doct...