NYT: How Medicine Became the Stealth Family-Friendly Profession

[karayaa]

How Medicine Became the Stealth Family-Friendly Profession
Female doctors are more likely than other professionals to have children and keep working. The reasons offer lessons for other jobs.
How Medicine Became the Stealth Family-Friendly Profession

How do you all think about hours/lifestyle when choosing which specialty you want to do? Do you think there's a generational difference? A gender difference?

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[DoctwoB]

The twitter response to the article is telling. Lot of angry female MDs who feel that this article glosses over that in order to be physician mothers they accept less pay, have to pursue lower paying specialties, work part time, give up advancement opportunities, etc.

Being married to one such physician, I can say the sacrifice is real. Being a physician mom is possible, but to call medicine and it’s culture “family friendly” is BS.

The reasons more physician mothers keep working are likely because they have invested so long in their career to get to that point, and their earning potential means it makes more sense to work and pay for childcare. It doesn’t mean that it’s easy