The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 275 No 7376 p631
19 November 2005

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Gender

Inequality seems to be one-sided

From Mr K. Law

Do you not just love these “gender studies”, such as the one that appeared in the PJ this week (12 November, p604). “Has pharmacy become a good job for women but less attractive to men?” It strikes me that these studies seek to have their cake and eat it too.

If a profession has more men in it than women, it is an inequality that must be sorted out. But if it is reversed and it is women who become dominant, eg, pharmacy, medicine, etc, strangely these same studies do not show this as being an inequality for men that needs to change. No, they find something else to complain about. Some medical schools now have a female intake of up to 75 per cent. But no one suggests that this disadvantages men. Why not?

Nursing has had a male intake that has staggered from 10 per cent to 15 per cent in the past 20 years, hardly redressing the gender balance. Where are all the inequality studies on this one?

Kevin Law
Dundee

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