In areas such as medicine, the requirement to give women ‘equal opportunities’ by demanding that medical schools try to train as many women as they do men to become doctors is leading to far worse conditions and shortfalls in the NHS – a service that is already failing the country abysmally.
The fact that so many of these women doctors will take out years from their profession in order to have children and to look after them (with some never returning) is a major drain on a system that is already unable to cope.
In theory, it sounds great to have as many women doctors working in the NHS as men. In practice, however, the consequence is that EVERYONE has to wait a good deal longer to be dealt with, and the entire service is considerably less efficient.
And with waiting lists already far too long even for urgent surgical operations, the price for this ‘equality’ is rather high. And it costs some people their health and some people their lives.
Most people have a great deal of sympathy with the view that women should be permitted to become doctors working for the NHS if they have the requisite abilities – even if they do log out of the system to bring up families. But there is a price to be paid. In the case of the NHS, everyone who uses it pays a price – particularly the old, the young, the weak, the vulnerable and the sick.
In fact, the most needy of all pay the price!
And these are mostly women.
many times more women are negatively affected by an impoverished NHS than there are women doctors.
Indeed, many times more women are negatively affected by an impoverished NHS than there are women doctors.
Indeed, all women are affected by this.
Further, of course, all of us will need medical treatment at some stage in our lives, and so all of us will suffer from the adverse effects of an NHS that is greatly diminished by the low long-term career aspirations of a relatively small number of women.
[January 2014 – UK citizens will now be aware that tens of thousands of people are known to have died over the years – with thousands more having received appalling treatment – because of the serious shortcomings that have arisen in the NHS over the past three decades.]
Furthermore, the training of doctors is a very expensive business that stretches well beyond the five years that students spend at medical school. And with 60% of women doctors giving up their careers within ten years, the training of women to become doctors is largely a waste of taxpayers’ money.
Moreover, the country loses the potential talents of all those young men who would have embarked upon long-term careers in medicine were it not for the fact that women were taking up the places at medical schools.
And, of course, as with all the major professions, experience is just about everything. And so when women doctors in the NHS give up their careers after a few years of work, the country is denied the services of men doctors who would actually have had the same period of experience.
And who would then have gone on to get even more experience.
In other words, these future highly-experienced doctors are lost forever.
In summary, the training of women to become doctors significantly degrades the health system. It harms the most needy of people the most. It negatively impacts on all of us. It is a waste of taxpayers’ money. And it persistently deprives the country of a large number of highly experienced doctors.
But that’s feminism for you.
As in so many other areas, it has a huge cost.
And why do we inflict this huge cost upon the nation?
We do this so that a few thousand women can benefit from having a career in medicine
We do this so that a few thousand women can benefit from having a career in medicine, with most of them choosing to abandon it for something more to their liking.
What is the solution? Do we stop women from becoming doctors by giving all the limited number of places at medical schools to men?
Well, the purpose of this article was not to provide a particular solution to this problem, but to point out that this is yet another area where feminism extracts a very large price from just about everyone for the benefit of a few women. This needs to be pointed out rather than swept under the carpet.
Indeed, this ideology puts more importance on the career aspirations of a few thousand women than it does on the health of the entire nation; including the health of our children!”
So much for the notion that feminism is about “social justice” or the ending of the “oppression” of women. As Dirty Harry points out, for the vast majority of history, most men were as oppressed in their way as women were.
What liberated both were advances in technology and medicine, both largely made by men, as a matter of pure fact. How then did feminism “liberate women” except to turn most of them into entitled harridans who can neither keep home and hearth and please their mates nor compete on equal terms with men.