A post in BusinessWeek attracts my attention. This post focuses on one topic: “it is a waste of resources to train women who plan to take years off for childrearing, followed by part time light duty employement with no on-call responsibilities?”
Their argument bases on two assumptions. 1) women are more ecpected to reduce work hours to look after children until the children are older…2) The doctor shortage will get worse as baby boomers age.
I don’t agree with this argument. Actually I regard this as an discrimination. Suppose there is a doctor who had a child and now works part time. Can anybody say that her time in hospital is worthless? That the lives she possibly saved mean nothing? It is unethical action to decrease woman working opportunity just because they are female and need time to take care of their family.
Source http://www.businessweek.com/careers/workingparents/blog/archives/2008/04/women_doctors_w.html?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives
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