Female doctors outnumber male peers in UK for first time

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1. Interesting. I also note the following:

   >In the years since the UK voted to leave the EU in June 2016 there has been a huge increase in the number of doctors coming to work in the UK from India, Pakistan, Egypt and Nigeria.

   Not typically countries that you associate with being particularly progressive with regards to women’s rights and gender equality or safety for women.

   I wonder if there is another story behind this story 🤔

   Edit: For clarity, I’m wondering if part of the increase in female doctors is driven by doctors leaving countries that aren’t especially welcoming to women, and moving to the UK, where it is better.

2. So we’re going to push for more male doctors now to make it completely even now?

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4. Does that mean that porters should now have a pay increase to make their wages up to doctors wages as those are jobs that men are more likely to get now?

   Or does it only happen the other way around?

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6. As a med student, this doesn’t surprise me. At my current med school, women outnumber men. Not that I care, but just an observation.

7. That’s not equality. I hope DEI departments start introducing male doctor quotas as a result

8. My missus is a midwife and was trying to argue about women being underrepresented in jobs like the armed forces and fire service the other day.

   The irony of her job was totally lost on her….
   She kept coming up with excuses and ‘men don’t want to be midwives’ or ‘women wouldn’t be comfortable with a male midwife’.

9. I wonder how these numbers stack up when looking at registrars and consultants 

10. The most stunning part of this article is the fact that more than half of doctors are from minority backgrounds, even though they make up only 18% of the population. Despite this astronomical over-representation, the Guardian writer uses the same tired lines of systematic discrimination as if it has become a reflex.

    It is frankly astonishing how under-represented white people are in the medical field, and by the logic of the article itself, that people get better medical treatment if the doctor is of the same ethnic background, this would be a serious health hazard.

11. System: fails boys

    Also the system: Why are boys failing? Men should be fine by default. Do better.

    Men: we are not doing good and need help

    The System again: lol fuck off you misogynistic cunts.

12. This is an inevitable outcome resulting from changes to school examination and education systems, and has an effect across many professions. Moves away from examinations towards continual assessment have favoured girls who are more willing to do the work whereas boys take risks and rely on their exam performance. Girls now out perform boys at school.

13. Can I say these days Women have more empathy? that’s maybe why they are drawn to a caring profession?

14. Like, what happend to fort knox, i assume he has taken all the gold, because the went quiet very quickly.

15. This sub seems to make any female achievement, any insurance of the gender gap being bridged, a negative.

    But guarantee it it said ‘more women doctors than muslim men!!!!!!’ this sub would be cheering. Disgraceful to only use feminism to fuel your racism otherwise it’s an outrage.

16. Guess we have got to the point that we need to make a career in medicine attractive to males again.

    It should be a 50/50.

    Edit) clearly some that are a little sexist think we should not

17. Same with Nursing. The majority of nurses are female. If it was the other way around, there would be many groups complaining

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