Sigh. It's so true.

I read the study and they didn't adjust for specialty. Essentially, they treated General practitioner, ( internal medicine) the same as a emergency medicine doctor or a doctor with a fellowship. Naturally they found a large discrepancy. It's kind of obvious.

I went to school with a girl who had both parents as doctors (although I don't know if they were fancy specialist surgeons or whatnot). She was one of five children and waś to all extents and purposes, entirely raised by nannies. She was a perfectly lovely girl, and I think she herself went on to study medicine. So…

Not actively, no. Actually, you're outwardly encouraged to aim high.

My wife's graduating class had a really good match, and IIRC, more than a few of the gunner women ended up in surgical specialties. Suckers. ;-)

My wife is a physician. The answer is no.

I had the same issue when I worked in the film industry. I was generally the only woman in my department, & I often felt like an outsider, even when my boss was respectful and supportive. When i did work with a powerful woman, it seemed like she wasn't able to balance her life the way the men with stay at home wives…

I want to see Azie Mira Dungey on Saturday Night Live! Her delivery and comic timing are brilliant. She could be the best African American woman on the show. Wait, why did I think like that? Grr... Oh no - I thought about it some more. There have only been two African American women as mainstage players on SNL in its…

I'm Canadian, so things may be slightly different in the US, but my general experience has been that women are discouraged from specialties with terrible hours (ie. any surgical specialty), and those tend to pay a lot. However, I've never heard of any woman being discouraged from specialties such as ophthalmology and…

Seriously. Who could complain about that? B/c you know plenty of people think that it "beats living in the jungle." You know a LOT of people still think we were done a huge favor when we were kidnapped and brought over for five centuries of enslavement and physical and sexual violence that they like to deny.

I think the only thing that bothers me is that lack of female role models. Like during my neurosurg rotation, every single one of the 10 or so neurosurgeons at my hospital was a man. They were all really awesome and loved me and encouraged me to pursue neurosurgery...but still, it would have been nice to just see ONE…

Med student here. I have personally not experienced any discouragement from pursuing surgical specialties. I get the odd older female doctor (married to a male surgeon usually) suggesting that I pick a lifestyle speciality...but those women are pretty obviously projecting their own relationship failures on young…

I am so depressed that I never had the pleasure of meeting Miss Dungey the several times we visited Mount Vernon when we were stationed up there! I do remember the hubby and I sharing some horrified side-eyes when people asked really stupid questions of the docent working in the slave cabin.

Back in 2001, while my wife and 10-year-old son went on a professionally-guided tour of the big house, I took our six-year-old daughter on a dad-guided tour of the outbuildings. Never too young to start healthy cynicism.

Yes. Doctor patient confidentiality exists so that the patient decides who gets medical info. Not to prevent patients from disclosing it if they want to or to protect others from hearing about "crass" medical stuff. There was a time when both breast and cervical cancer were taboo to discuss in this country resulting…

I...hm. I think that the surgery should be an option for women. If they're dead set on doing space missions and are otherwise capable, the surgery would cut the risks drastically. Plus, I doubt there will be millions of women lining up for the procedure. Unless there's statistics saying that, then the more the better,…

I'm also concerned about Bruce asking Clark to get a beer. Batman doesn't drink.

A NYT wedding announcement is a profile piece, not an announcement. They were asked the question by an interviewer, not providing information unsolicited.

I agree with those who have remarked that this would be a weird thing for a couple to include in an announcement of their nuptials, but this isn't a wedding announcement in the sense of a notice/release that the couple prepared themselves for publication. NYTimes weddings pieces are profiles of recently/soon-to-be…

Maybe change the headline not to say "wedding announcement"? I can see in the comments people are arguing that it is odd to include in a wedding announcement, which is a fair point, so it would be useful to clarify that this is a weekly article about a couple getting married, not an announcement like one that appears…