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By: Lightly Seasoned

Lightly Seasoned — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:32:49 +0000

Catherine: I didn’t like programming much either . It didn’t have much to do with Coke and Star Trek, though — I just don’t sit still well. That’s why I got out of law, too.

momof4: I’d read about the same shortage (maybe in Practical Horseman), but our area is over-supplied with large animal vets and there are many, many women in equine veterinary practices. The track vets are all women, and the practice I use is owned by a really old guy, but nearly all the younger vets he has working for him are women. It may depend where you are.

By: momof4

momof4 — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:16:25 +0000

I have read that there is a coming shortage of large-animal vets, both for regular vet practice and for food inspectors. According to the article – and I admit I can’t remember where I saw it – women tend to choose small-animal practices more than men do.

In medicine, women choose different specialties and different practice arrangements within specialties. Almost 5 years ago, a group of surgeons of various types all reported that the average age in their specialty was over 50. In one specialty, over half the surgeons were over 55 and the retirements were significantly outpacing the replacements from residency programs.

By: mutecypher

mutecypher — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:28:56 +0000

I eagerly await the article detailing all of the cultural changes that pre-veterinary schools will make to “fix” the problem of only 20% male enrollment.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:53:21 +0000

In my aerospace engineering class there was, by our junior year, only one girl left in the class. She was a hardcore engineer who loved the field (and had the second-best grades of all of us). All of her friends in aerospace had changed majors, however, most of them because they had never really been passionate about engineering in the first place: their parents and guidance counsellors had pushed them into it. When asked to speak in front of a group of girls touring the campus to encourage them into engineering, she flatly refused on the grounds that such programs had wasted the time of so many of her friends.

It doesn’t seem impossible that boys and girls might not be exactly alike.

By: Tracy W

Tracy W — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:46:41 +0000

momof4 – as a woman with an engineering degree, I have noticed some worries amongst humanities and nursing students over the lack of men applying (men are particularly useful in nursing because of a greater upper body strength).
Whatever – 10% was my experience too, 10 girls out of 110 electrical engineering students.
Catherine – I had a bit of a similar experience, I was designing a control system in my final year of the degree and realised that I really fundamentally didn’t care about it, and thus wound up taking a knights move to economics (I finished the degree because it was my final year). On the other hand, about 3 years later I went to the wedding of one of my engineering school mates, there were about 10 of us there and only one person, female, was still actually working as an engineer.

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By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:52:53 +0000

Lightly Seasoned, I’m fairly certain that Asian women don’t get told repeatedly through high school and college that they should “find their passion” and do it. They have a different approach to careers – work hard, earn lots of money, be professionally successful.
Since I didn’t have a “passion” for programming, I ended up developing a distaste for it and chucking the whole field. We young Westerners are a lot more idealistic about attaining deep job satisfaction (I’m in my mid-thirties) than your average college-educated Chinese or Indian woman. I blame our humanities professors.

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