Women In Medical Schools

Females in the class room are less likely to be encouraged than male students. Women report that the male professors are more willing to help out a male student then a female. This is believed to come from the idea that male students have a higher chance of success in their professional medical careers with reaching their top ranks. Women are often discouraged from continuing with medical school by expressing to them how difficult it is to balance family and professional medical work. This is all based on the gender role that a woman will have a child and leave the medical field or take a break, being seen as a “waste” in the mind of a male professor. Women in medical school are also seen as less intelligent compared to their male classmates.

(E, age 29 years old).” (Babaria 253). Women in the study explained how common it was to see a male professor favor the male student by being offered more opportunities than females through internships and new lab work. A professor is more likely to choose a male student to partake in a lab study alongside them then a woman, even if the woman is just as interested in the lab content. Men are often taken more seriously with their work than females are by their professors, being that men are likelier to become some of the highest ranks in the medical field, for example, becoming neurosurgeons. It is becoming an obvious trend that male doctorate professors want to see men continuing to dominate the doctor field by trying to intimidate females away and gearing them in different