Written by: Madison Elliott
As most people know, there is often an under representation of women in many job fields that are deemed “masculine” such as engineering, math, and science based jobs. This week I have found an interesting article that discussed this gender stereotype in the medical field, and how women in the field have not advanced as well as the men in the field have and the inequality between the two genders that comes with this.
First off, I think that women are mistreated from the beginning in most fields. It is seen in things like unequal pay between men and women and also in the gender that holds a majority of authoritative positions in most fields, which is men as well. Even when narrowed down to specific different fields, there is still a difference in genders, and there is no difference in the medical field. I would say that one of the most known stereotypes in this field is that women are thought of as nurses and men are thought of as doctors. Often people will make that assumption and mistake a woman who is a doctor as the nurse and vice versa. This just shows that men are usually just assumed to have the higher standing position in the workplace.
Many times there are occurrences when a woman physician’s, not a nurse, opinion is even discredited or not even taken into account. Even when women have a leadership role in the field, in medical or all others, they are treated as if they are less.
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