Why couldn't Michigan State find a female doctor for its female gymnastics program?

[stollen]

I'm an MSU graduate and get many email requests for money despite my having put these emails in the spam file numerous times. I'm not going to contribute to a university that harbors pedophiles. I would no more give money to MSU than I would Ohio State University. But it makes no sense to me that female doctors are not assigned to female sports programs.

The same goes for the FBI. Why aren't female agents assigned to cases of female sexual abuse, exclusively?

[onecaliberal]

1. Well, then you wouldn't be able to have the man explain to you why

its all your own fault.

[Treefrog]

10. Oh, boom.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Institutional inertia.

[hlthe2b]

3. More like institutional patriarchy.

[markie]

4. and why

can't we let female congress people make laws concerning women's health

[MiniMe]

17. Ding Ding Ding

It cracks me up when Abbott is sitting down signing a law about abortion surrounded by only men. Grrrr

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Same Questions Here

I've wondered the same since I first heard about this.
And, your question about the FBI applies to all law enforcement.
We often criticize police departments when their demographics don't nearly reflect those of the community.
Why wouldn't women LEO be preferentially tasked with investigating crimes against women? I think it highly likely they'd be more prone to take it seriously.

[Budi]

6. This is why. Thanks. .."highly likely they'd be more prone to take it seriously"

"I think it highly likely they'd be more prone to take it seriously."

👍

[dsc]

8. Jury studies suggest not

Women jurors are more likely to blame the victim

[ProfessorGAC]

13. I Hadn't Heard That

That's counterintuitive.
Very surprising.

[Duppers]

21. I ck'd & you're right!!

Just WOW!!

I thought my very religious, RW mother was an anomaly. She was rarely sympathetic to women on any issue.

[Mosby]

7. Should people be hired based on gender?

How about race or religion?

[LanternWaste]

19. Are actors ever hired due to gender?

(kinda show the flaw in adhering to absolutism in any one thing)

[FBaggins]

9. Is there some reason to have two doctors?

Would you ask why there wasn't a male doctor for the male gymnastics program if the school had only a female doctor?

Perfectly reasonable to ask "did you have to hire a predator???" - but no reason that a sports physician for a school can't be male just because he would have female patients.

[Treefrog]

11. Let's face facts.

Women are less likely than men to be sexual offenders.

[FBaggins]

12. So? You can't hire on that basis

That would be illegal

[ProfessorGAC]

14. Disagree Partially

Agree in principle, but were talking about a giant university with a massive athletic department.
Having 2 doctors, one for male athletes, another for females seems a reasonable alternative.
But, you're right.
It clearly seems Nasser wasn't adequately vetted. There's an overall failure that a single swap wouldn't fix.

[Ohio Joe]

20. Why yes... There is

MSU is very large and has a very large sports program. They do indeed have good number of sports doctors:

https://healthcare.msu.edu/services/specialty-care/sports-medicine.aspx

[viva la]

15. Frankly, I think the men in charge--

got a vicarious thrill thinking of a male doctor manipulating the bodies of young girls.

Yeah. I really sense that-- and that's why they ignored all the complaints, because they were getting excited by it.

[haele]

16. Maybe the amount of women going into sports medicine.

The need for sports medicine MDs isn't as great as other medical specialties, and many doctors feel it isn't as important as a generalist or other specialists. And Im not sure most universities consider the "Team Doctor" a position much greater than the school nurse outside the high dollar college sports (Football, Basketball); team doctors probably are managing several different University teams across genders, instead of just "Men's Track" or "Women's Volleyball".

As for investigative work, there's always been a problem dealing with gender - both when dealing with gender based crime and gender of investigator. In the bad old days, segregated investigative work where women were typically assigned to handled crimes involving women, there was always a gender gap in pay and advancement - and respect for the job they did.

I don't want to see policing - or any career - go back to those days. What I do want to see is better hiring to screen out the jerks and bullies so that job policies and customers/clients are handled equally no matter economic class, gender, or race of the individual or incident being served.

Haele

[Hekate]

18. Amen sister

[elias7]

22. Predators come in all genders. You need a chaperone...

It’s not a matter of a male or a female doctor, it’s that there needs to be a chaperone in such circumstances. A doctor would never do a pelvic exam on a female patient without a nurse present as witness and chaperone. That should have been protocol with children.