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by chasd00 1601 days ago
> It isn't really fair to use doctors as and example since it is still a male-dominated profession, with over 60% being male

from the second link: One of the steadiest movements has been the rise in women as a percentage of the physician workforce: It rose from 28.3% in 2007 to 36.3% last year, according to the AAMC’s Physician Specialty Data Reports from 2008 to 2020:

2007 — 28.3% 2010 — 30.4% 2013 — 32.6% 2015 — 34.0% 2017 — 35.2% 2019 — 36.3%

the above growth rates are not domination unless you're talking about women being dominant.

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It isn't female dominated, though: Only 36.3% of the workforce are women. I don't know how that is female dominated if 63.7% - nearly 2/3 - of doctors are male. Just because the percentage of women in the professioin is growing doesn't mean it is dominated by females. Compare this to teachers: 76% of teachers are female [1]

Do you have some alternative version of "dominated" that I'm not privy to?

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/clr#:~:text=See%2....