Breaking: Man Admits That Men Simply Don't Trust Women

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28. Yes

I think when we have children, or have enough exposure and influence to children male or female, it's easier if we are able to be invested somehow in their education, their goal and dreams. This doesn't happen with everyone of course. Watching young women up hesitate to reach for the stars and wonder if it's because she is a she, is a very good thing to do. Just as watching a boy pick a profession out of a misplaced sense of masculinity would be distubing to the aware parent, or responsible adult. I think you gave her the best advise possible.

Interestingly, since I work at a teaching hospital, before my eyes, not only have I seen the number of female resident increase, I know medical schools are at 50/50, but also the number of female attendings, fellows, surgeons and tenured professors in medicine. What tends to happen it the gender gap becomes wider the more power the position entails. This continues to be a significant problem, what is encouraging is the increasing awareness it is a problem--literally--for society. There are studies coming out showing a equilatarian workplace is a healthier, more productive one when it comes to gender.

(I know I enjoy the general diversity at my workplace, it adds richness to the culture and greater understanding of points of view. For instance, I can listen to female Jewish persons originally from Israel discuss politics with a male Mulsim originally from Pakistan, and the world doesn't end)