Women and glass ceilings

reinecke54, Wednesday, 08.06.2005, 18:51 (vor 7488 Tagen)

Interessanter bericht im Economist:
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4033465

But the glass ceiling is giving way to glass partitions: women are not spreading out evenly across these professions. Instead, they are concentrating in the less well-paid bits of them. In medicine, for example, women tend to go into general practice (all-purpose family medicine). In London, 70% of new GPs are women.

Family-friendly working conditions mean that female GPs abound, but higher-paid hospital medicine (such as surgery and gynaecology) remains largely the preserve of men. Pippa Gough, a fellow at the King's Fund, a think-tank, recalls that when she was a nurse, “the gynaecologist used to appear wearing a bow tie and a fresh rose in his lapel.” Such old-fashioned props may have gone now, but there are still few women in areas where competition is fiercest and earnings highest. Helen Fernandes, a surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, reckons that many women are put off surgery by the expectation that they have to be constantly available for work. “You can't leave in the middle of an operation, even if you have a child to pick up from the nursery and will lose your place there if you are late.” But such demanding specialisations are also the most lucrative ones.

Leider wird nicht aufgeschlüsselt, wieviele frauen wirklich
kinder zu versorgen haben. Vielleicht arbeiten die frauen nur
teilzeit oder nicht in "areas where competition is fiercest
and earnings highest", weil sie kein interesse daran haben
oder weil sie es nicht nötig haben, da ein mann ernährer spielt.