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An anonymous poll on prevets' gender distribution
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You should prob add some more options for people that don't fit into those boxes 🙂
Are you doing this poll out of curiosity or is there another reason?An anonymous poll on prevets' gender distribution
after all the lectures on intersex..... i agree.You should prob add some more options for people that don't fit into those boxes 🙂
I love how the OP has made other polls today, consisting of "why med" "why dent" "why pharm" but all we get is "what is your gender?" 🙄
Dude, why polls?
Ha that's because I thought only one of those possible responses would apply to you prevets: namely aptitude. So I figured making "why vet?" poll would be pointless.I love how the OP has made other polls today, consisting of "why med" "why dent" "why pharm" but all we get is "what is your gender?" 🙄![]()
Ha that's because I thought only one of those possible responses would apply to you prevets: namely aptitude. So I figured making "why vet?" poll would be pointless.
Interesting..... There are more male pre-vets than I thought.
So the field of veterinary is like that of nursing...I see.It's ~ 20/80 split give or take a few percentage points from prevets to vet students. This poll has both a small sample size and self-selection (SDN Community) as confounding factors too.
FWIW
So the field of veterinary is like that of nursing...I see.
Why might that be? Do you know?Nursing has always been heavily female. Veterinary school has only semi-recently taken that turn. If you look back 15 or 20 years, the classes are predominantly male. Even to the >90% point in some areas.
Why might that be? Do you know?
And do you know why THAT is? Is it just women's "thing?" Anyway, I appreciate your analysis, very thought-provoking indeed.That's been a discussion point before...I don't think anyone really knows the answer; it's multifactorial.
Part of it probably began simply with the rise of women in higher education in general (more women in college now than ever, even more than men), and the other part may possibly have been due to the fact that, as more women entered, the same type of prejudice began about seeing it as a "female dominated" profession so fewer men entered.
Additionally, there was the ever-increasing rise of companion animal medicine over large/food animal medicine which, in *general* women tend to be more drawn towards (with the exception of equine medicine, which is also heavily female now). Not to say there are not women interested in production medicine, and I know some FANTASTIC female cattle and sheep/goat/pig vets, but overall it is still male (let's just say a lot of the old-timer employers are reluctant to hire female food animal vets due to prejudice).
And do you know why THAT is? Is it just women's "thing?" Anyway, I appreciate your analysis, very thought-provoking indeed.
I hope I'll be a "fantastic" food animal vet sometime, too.
I really hope the prejudice against women will be less though when I start working. It'd suck to have to change to equine/small animal etc. just because of something like that.
I do get attached to animals, but only when I'm able to spend a good amount of time on loving on them etc. My friend gets upset just talking about production animals (she's a vegan because she thinks it's wrong to eat other animals), but I don't really have a problem with it. I think it's a part of life and deal with it. I don't think we'd be able to completely change everything and make the whole society vegan. So what I prefer is kind of an approach like Temple Grandin. Not stopping the industry, but trying to make it better/easier on the animals.
Also:
Cisgender Female
Cisgender Male
Trigender
Genderless/Agender
Genderfluid
Bigender
Pangender.
Transgender (MtF = Male-to-Female, FtM = Female-to-Male)
Androgyny/Neutrois
Add these options or I refuse to answer on the basis of bigotry.
I always wanted to be an equine vet, but after showing horses myself.. I don't think I could deal with only horse people my whole career. I hope I don't offend someone with this. Not everybody is like that. There are definitely people I like in that industry!![]()
Women (again, on the whole....don't want to make people mad here) tend to be more nurturing. We enjoy healing.
lol @ the irony of a female pathologist-in-training saying this.
Interestingly, I find that in my Medicine courses, I am much less interested in the 'healing' aspect and moreso in the process of diagnosis and understanding the etiology and pathogenesis of disease. Uh....oh......
On boards, I would get tremendously pissed when they would present a complaint, and I could diagnose it right off the bat and tell you everything you wanted to know about the pathogenesis, both gross and microscopic.....but no, they wanted to know what antibiotic to use. Argh.
I'm also much more interested in the disease process. Obviously, I would like everything to be healed....but I find the Dx more interesting than the Tx.
I completely understand. Same on my Med tests so far. I'm like I KNOW WHAT THIS ANIMAL HAS and the question is like "how would you treat this" and I'm like ummm supportive care and find someone who gives a damn about treating it.
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It's ~ 20/80 split give or take a few percentage points from prevets to vet students. This poll has both a small sample size and self-selection (SDN Community) as confounding factors too.
FWIW
I completely understand. Same on my Med tests so far. I'm like I KNOW WHAT THIS ANIMAL HAS and the question is like "how would you treat this" and I'm like ummm supportive care and find someone who gives a damn about treating it.
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