If it’s under the EEOC small business cap in terms of employees it’s not illegal.

This is a super fraught issue, in my opinion. When I went through residency, multiple co-residents disappeared for weeks on end for maternity leave. Our program, from what I could see (because multiple women did it) was pretty accepting of that. But the residency system is not designed for it, and what it would mean…

10+ years of working in hospital systems here. Plenty of personal anectdotes from MD or MD/PhD friend about this. Hot/ decade-accumulated/ advice from females in the field take: It’s actually not a good idea to try and start a family during a surgical residency without a support system in place. It’s not a right to…

A friend of mine managed it through deliberately planning her pregnancies and taking time off after second year and a full year after graduation before starting her residencies.

It actually might not be illegal. A small business can always claim that the accommodations requested aren’t reasonable, etc. It’s bulllllllllshit but it might be legal.

I’m 30 and my older sister is about to be 32, so back in the mid-80s my momma had finished her residency and knew she wanted kids and decided to do the single mom thing and have us trough artificial insemination and raise us on our own. She’s an OBGYN, and while she is not superhuman and I know I’m biased BC she’s my…

My mom managed to get through (medical school) because my dad drove taxis at night and took care of me as a baby in the morning. He had something like 4 hours of sleep every day. He continued to do this even after my sister was born. After her program finished, she was able to pay for him to go back to school.

it is illegal as hell, but it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.

I just watched a friend go back after the standard maternity leave to her place of employment and was told that she was no longer the project manager (a job that offered her a route to promotion, travel opps, etc )- the guy who they had doing her job “temp”…

As someone who has dated a woman who is a surgeon, it’s a pretty complicated issue that goes beyond starting a family. This is the most important line in this article.

I want my surgeon to look like they live in their scrubs, when they meet with me for any pre-op appointment to look like they are exhausted because they are too busy saving patients on the table to sleep (though I want them to look bright and cheery when they are getting ready for my surgery though of course). I want…

It’s complicated.

The female doctors I know who have done it seem super-human to me, too. I’m not sure that’s the best perspective to bring to patient care, though.

As a recent attending physician now working in academics (in Emergency Medicine, not surgery), this is a hugely complicated issue. I still remember as a student having a pregnant surgical resident vomiting on morning rounds as we prepped for the day (easily 5am or earlier). I remember being impressed at how ‘bad ass’…

IMO, this problem is insoluble until we untie health insurance/care from employment and offer maternal (ideally parental) leave at a national level.

Yeah, I was going to say, this seems to be an issue for any woman who desires both to advance her professional career and have children. It really is difficult and I’m not sure what the answer is. I think there are biological realities at play here that are difficult to dismiss— becoming a parent is a huge life change…

I’m currently taking my pre reqs so I can apply to medical school when my youngest starts kindergarten. My lab partner right now is in a similar situation— she’s going into a PA program as soon as her youngest starts kindergarten. While it’s not the conventional path, and anecdotally of course, I think a lot of women…

Mad props to my former psychiatrist who did her residency with small kids at home (in the freaking 80s); that shit had to have been out of sight difficult!

This is a bit pedantic but the headline should read they are having issues completing surgical residencies, not medical residencies since the study didn’t focus on internal medicine residents but on surgical residents.

This should come as a surprise to no one. It’s true among many competitive job fields. The rules were never set up for “taking family time” So by default a guy that does not have to take time off for pregnancy/birth/childcare has a huge advantage in many career fields. It’s going to be a tough nut to crack to level…

97 percent said there was inadequate institutional support in the form of childcare (or none)