http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/aug/22/women-doctors-top-nhs-jobs
The article talks about women in the medical profession reaching a glass ceiling in the senior positions. The twist with this article that I found interesting is that women were the one's primarily keeping back complete equality. There is still the issue where women are being paid less than men (18% less), but the writer of the article feels that women are just not pushing themselves forward. As of this article, 56% of the medical school graduates are female, and 59% of the medical workforce are women, but only 28% of those women are medical consultants.
Women have indeed come a long way in the medical field. Back in the 19th century, women weren't even allowed to go to medical school and today they have a shot at high ranking positions within the medical community. At the end of the article there is an anecdote about one female doctor who climbed the ladder the hard way and once she got to the top and started to have kids, she stated that she regretted not being able to spend more time with her kids when they were infants.
How this relates to our class and leadership is that while there is a lack of leading female physicians in high ranking positions, this is not entirely due to the glass ceiling holding them down. There is also a distinct lack of forward momentum pushing women up towards the top. With the statistics being presented in this article, women not only make up enough of a percentage to be able to attain these higher positions, but also start to demand and receive compensation that would be equal to their male counterparts. It really just seems like it is only just a matter of time until the right people start to make those forward pushes and we start to see complete equality in the medical field.
-Geoffrey Ali
I think that women in the medical field have all of the right criteria to be top leaders. I believe that a lot of them probably exhibit leadership traits, skills and styles that make them as good if not better than the men they are competing with. However, I feel that as they climb their way to the top they tend to be more accepting of what is given to them. For example, I think women are more likely when they get a new position and are told their new pay to just say thank you and walk out. Whereas, I think men are more likely to try and argue or persuade their way into higher wages. I feel that if women were that gutsy as well it would diminish the gap in pay rates.
ReplyDelete-Danielle Sparacino
Is the rise in the senior positions for women in the doctorate field decreasing the number of male doctors? I would suspect this is a reason why there is a rise in male nurses. Women are showing their talents in the medical field and showing they can be just as good of doctors then men. In my opinion it doesn't matter what sex you are to become a top doctor it is about how much knowledge, hard work, ability, and experience to be at the top of your field.
ReplyDelete-Mitchell Terry
As the title of the article states, "Something Other then the Glass Ceiling Holding Back the Doctors", we can see through you analysis that female doctors are less likely to push. Through EEOC as well as other legislative acts especially in this professional field we have seen a many women able to rise to the top. Also stated above was the another masculine quality to fight a little bit more for that higher wage or title. All of that pertains to the KSA's the doctor exhibits, but when the female counterpart is placed in the same situation it is less likely for her to fight for more pay. This pay all ties in to the different salaries, which ultimately lead to the 77 cents to the dollar findings.
ReplyDeleteThis drive I feel also connects to a leadership quality, although I don't see drive as passion I can see passion as drive. Passion is meant more for a proper cause, but for this reason it is the drive to make greater money at the start of employment.