What is the most important gender in health?

In the health area there are careers in which men predominate as medical technology and physiotherapy. There are other careers that are divided between men and women as medicine and also there are careers that have a predominance of women for example nursing, nutrition, occupational therapy and of course our career, midwifery.


In relation with the responsibilities, once men and women at the time of become professionals have the same responsibilities, but it is important to know that a higher proportion of women in the area of health than men. The consequence of this is that women have more social responsibility because they work higher percentage the population.

With respect to salary, in my opinion should be similar between men and women, since they are equally qualified, academically formed in the same years and women and men have the same role in the area, and there aren’t reason to have differences between salary of men and women.

In Relation with the kind of patients, my point of wiew is that in every careers with the exception of midwefery the type of patients is similar between professional men and women there are not gender discrimination between the patient.

But most important aspect is known that occurs in our career. Midwifery is a career with higher percentage of women, and the public that we serve are single women, so that we studied all the processes in their life and we are in intimately connected with them. This can be a problem for some male students of our career because there are women who feel intimidated, uncomfortable and ashamed by a man. In other case, there are women gives them more confidence that a professional man because it gives them more confidence, and finally there are patients that are not important if they are assisted by man or a woman because they find it equally professional and responsible.