Posted on 12/26/2021 4:12:59 PM PST by BusterDog
According to a new study, the COVID-19 pandemic may be harming the mental health and career prospects of female physicians, especially those with children and physician spouses.
The study, published in JAMA Network Open, looked at gender differences in work-family responsibilities and emotional well-being among early-career physicians (N=215) since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.1 Elena Frank, PhD, and colleagues found that about 1 in 4 of the women surveyed were primarily responsible for providing childcare or schooling compared with less than 1% of the men. Similarly, 31.4% of women said they were likely to perform the majority of day-to-day household tasks, compared with only 7.2% of men responsible for those tasks.
The gender disparities were even greater in households with 2 full-time physicians. In those homes, 45% of women and 5% of men performed most of the household chores, and 28.6% of women were responsible for schooling and childcare versus 0% of men.
In addition, women were nearly twice as likely as men to work from home (41% versus 22%). Female physicians also were more apt to voluntarily reduce work hours (19.4% versus 9.4%.) since the start of the pandemic. Here, too, the differences were even more stark among 2-physician households with children. Among that cohort, 65% of women and 34.6% of men worked from home, and 25.7% of women and 2.6% of men reduced their work hours.
In terms of mental health, the survey showed mothers scored substantially higher on surveys measuring symptoms of anxiety and depression. However, there was no significant difference in work/family conflicts or depressive or anxiety scores among survey participants who were not parents.
(Excerpt) Read more at psychiatrictimes.com ...
Women and children physicians hit hardest.
My (female) doctors, a dermatologist and a proctologist, changed jobs or took a break. I think both were young parenting age.
Maybe for women the sting of practicing medical Lysenkoism (Fauci contagion control) is a little more intense.
Maybe more Trans dr.s is the answer...they are stronger...
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“Maybe more Trans dr.s is the answer...they are stronger...”
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True, but I don’t think it will turn around the housework disparity.
Most of the medical professional education programs are now majority female because they are woke to the max. This will not end well.
How much of the housework disparity is due to differences in the amount of perceived need?
Research shows that almost 40% of women physicians go part-time or leave medicine altogether within six years of completing their residencies. Here’s what’s behind the early exodus — and what pioneering institutions are doing to entice more women to stay.
https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/why-women-leave-medicine
Yes, not going to end well. The numbers above are from a pre-COVID study.
Whine...whine...whine...get over yourselves, girls.
No, you can’t “have it all.” They lied to you.
“How much of the housework disparity is due to differences in the amount of perceived need?”
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I’ve never thought of that. I wish I had heard it earlier, I’ve been subjected to a lot of guilt over this issue.
World ends: Women and minorities hardest hit.
I would say those that died of the disease were hardest hit.
Here is statistics game:
The number of med school grads has increased minimally since 1980 ~15000. Might be 20000 now.
Percentage of women has increased from ~5% to >50%.
Average practice lifetime of a female physician is 1/2 that of a male physician.
Put that in your medical manpower calculator.
How sexist! Are trannies affected?
BS. A.woman physician has enough income to hire house care and child care support.
What is not disclosed and I didn’t click on the article — the majority of women are in primary care not specialized care. Therefore, the were more likely able to take Telehealth from home. Intensivists, Pulmonologists, hospitalists and nephrologists were the primary specialties treating inpatient CoVID and as such probably couldn’t get home a whole hell of a lot.
Additionally early on, those of us in the ICU / hospital isolated, staying at hotels and not trying to bring this thing home to our families. I had several colleagues do this. The majority of people in the above specialties are men except for potentially hospitalists, but even there is is about half and half.
I’d think that as with regular colleges, men see less and less benefit to even bothering; either it would be hard to make back the money (doctors in particular), or you’d be moved to the back of the line for a job/salary/promotions behind preferred Americans or foreign scabs.
Colleges are facing declining enrollment because a good portion of the population simply sees no gain from it; trade schools and other alternatives don’t seem to have the same problem.
My nephrologist is a woman with younger kids living at home. She’s been doing telehealth since last year. I began to relapse a few weeks ago so she wants to see me in person next week.
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