I heard today that the percentage of female doctors in Japan is only 20%. Apparently, the idea of women in the medical field is still not well established over there, despite the fact that they are one of the leading developed countries, they still believe that a woman does not really belong in the hospital, and certainly not in some of the specific fields. They do have female nurses, in fact, most of their nurses are females, but when it comes to doctors, they make a minority.
I was just surprised to hear of these statistics. I thought such a developed country would utilize the females in the working area, especially in medicine, since they still have a shortage in staff, since they only prefer Japanese employers.
We have a lot more women in the medical field here in Oman. We do have some specialties that are male dominated, but it is those areas that are in desperate need for females, because of our culture, and because we do face the problem that many women patients prefer seeing female doctors. I guess it's a privilage if you think of it, that we are needed, it just gives us a broader variety of choices, and get the benefits and oppertunities to get into spcialities that we aim for, compared to men that is!
Posted by Noors at 12:25 AM
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Actually don't you have a somewhat captive female patient list in Oman?
Speaking of Japan though you can see they still do have some old tribal customs concerning women not only in employement.
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