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__Gender Issues__ //Over the past couple of weeks our english class has been discussing gender issues and how people can be sexist. We have been watching many documentaries and reading many stories on how people can be sexist and how various gender issues can come up in a regular day.// //***//   My father, John Scott, is an ear, nose and throat doctor in the Mount Kisco Medical Group. He worked extremely hard to have this life and career. Over the course of his journey he had noticed some things regarding gender issues and sexist issues. My dad grew up in Flint, Michigan. There he noticed that the males took their traditional roles and the females took their traditional roles. Most males became extremely intelligent and went on to college to start a great life for themselves. But, the females however did not try to become as intelligent as the males. They took more traditional roles like taking part time jobs and sometimes skipping school or dropping out of school. Many girls in his class became waitresses or part time nurses while taking time off from school to do this. My dad went to University of Michigan undergrad. He had noticed at this school that professors and students did not seem to be sexist at all. If anything they seemed more in favor of the other sex. At this liberal college the professors and students were so open and caring to all genders, not just one. My father also worked in a lab part time at Michigan. He worked there every day. He happened to notice that the head of that lab was a woman. He had found out that many more women each day were starting to go into the medical field. This women lead him on the right track in his medical career. After my dad went to undergrad at the University of Michigan he went to the University of Michigan Medical School. Here he noticed the gender ratio of males and females. He had noticed that in the “olden days” hardly any women became doctors. That women would only become nurses and males would become doctors. But, when he went to medical school he had noticed that the female and male ratio of doctors had started to even out. Each year many women become doctors instead of nurses. They believe that if the males can do it they can do it too. My dad noticed that at least half the classes at Michigan Medical School were females or more than half. After he graduated from the University of Michigan completely he went to Johns Hopkins. Johns Hopkins was and is famous for their medical section. When he got to Johns Hopkins my father noticed in his classes many of the teachers and professors were women as well. Actually, the chairman of General Surgery was a women for once. Males usually dominated this spot. This women was the first women to have this spot in 1994. But another thing he noticed through out his whole medical career is that not as many women were going into surgery as men. Most women were actually not going into surgery. Most women were something like a pediatrician. When my father actually became a doctor in the Mount Kisco Medical Group he had found out that if anything men were nicer and more flexible with women then women were with other women. He had noticed that women were a lot less flexible and less easy-going the men were to women. For example, in my dads group if one of the nurses had to leave because they had to get home for their kids or something important like that my dad would let them go, he knew he would get by. But, the nurse administrator or head of the nurses had a different opinion. She thought that my dad needed a nurse that the other nurses shouldn’t be allowed to leave if my dad didn’t have another nurse. Not even if he had another nurse, she just thought that they should not be able to leave at all. She basically thought that if she was not allowed to leave who ever she was in charge of should not be allowed to leave. Which is all of the nurses. Through out my fathers medical career and life in general he had noticed women started to come into play much more than before. Before women used to ONLY be stay at home moms and had to watch the home front. But, in present day women are starting to become much more dominant than before. Never before had some many gender issues come up in some different areas of life. The medical area is just one area where there are gender issues. In some many different sections of life there are so many more gender issues then these.