From: "Joseph Meehan" 

CE wrote:
> On Mar 29, 7:34 am, "Joseph Meehan" 
> wrote:
>
>>     When I was in pre-med it was about 40% women (back in the 60's)
>>
>>> The last graduating class from the same school had over 50% women
>>> graduates.
>
> The percentage of doctors who are women is not relevent to this
> discussion because the claim I made was that even in today's society
> it is still the man's role to defend and provide for women and
> children.

    No any more or less than it is the woman's role.   Maybe you see it your
way, but the rest of the world is passing you by.


> Doctors heal. They nurture. In the process of doing that, yes, they
> save lives. So does the baker when he or she provides bread for people
> to eat. Without food, we'd all perish. But that doesn't make baking an
> act of defending people or providing for them since the bread is sold.
>
> In the occupations where there is a clear mandate to defend the
> population from danger, such as among police officers, firefighters
> and soldiers, the overwhelming majority of people who hold those jobs
> are men. This is a clear indication that the men gravitate towards
> these occupations and women shy away from them because it is still
> seen as the man's role to defend women and children.

    More likely because people like you try to direct them to what they
think is right for them based on their sex.  Times are changing you are
missing the boat.

    That is OK for you.  You should pick your parts in life that fit you,
but you are just not seeing that is happening if you think things are not
changing.  The big change started at WWII and has been progressing ever
since.  The digital age is accelerating it.

    It is true that some jobs tend to be filled by men based on the need for
physical strength that most women do not have (as well as smaller men, but
those jobs are becoming fewer and fewer and more women are finding out that
they can fill those jobs.  My sister in law is a carpenter, a traditionally
male job, and a good one.  She also managed to save my son when he fell off
a slide.  I would call that defending people.


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Joseph Meehan

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