Recently, the implementation plan of the 2020 transfer program of the School of Basic Medicine and Law of Sichuan University’s Huaxi School of Basic Medicine and Law, which restricts forensic medicine majors to male students, has caused a lively discussion on the Internet.
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Image source: Sichuan University Academic Affairs Office official website
This rule is not new, as the university’s 2019 implementation plan for transferring majors also clearly states that “forensic medicine majors are restricted to male students.
Is it responsible for students or is it gender discrimination?
At present, there are no relevant documents on gender restriction for transferring majors in China. However, Article 43 of the Notice of the Ministry of Education on the Enrollment Work of General Colleges and Universities in 2013 stipulates that except for some special colleges (majors) such as military, national defense and public security, colleges and universities shall not stipulate the ratio of male to female students.
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Image source: Screenshot of the official website of the Ministry of Education
In the 2020 implementation plan, the university did not restrict the gender of its majors, except for forensic medicine, which is restricted to male transfer.
Clove contacted the consulting teacher of the West China College of Basic Medicine and Forensic Medicine, the teacher said that this provision is mainly because it is more difficult to employ female students in forensic medicine, in order to have better employment in the future, so it is not recommended for female students to transfer in.
The Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Justice, when the enrollment of men and women know the ratio is 4:1, forensic girls are very popular, but after the merger with Sichuan University, there is no restriction on enrollment, more and more girls, but the jobs are not so big demand, so the employment pressure on girls is greater; in addition, girls have to give birth to children, out is not so convenient, so now many forensic girls graduate They have changed careers.
A female student from West China Medical Center told Clove that she once wanted to switch to forensic medicine, and at that Time, although there were gender restrictions, interviews were also offered: “The interview would have been discouraged, saying that the main thing is that employment is very difficult, and if you insist on learning cadaver detection, you may not find a job at all and have to continue reading. There are not many subspecialties in forensics, like toxicology, judicial testing, psychiatric identification of employment will compete with other professions, and the field is narrower.
Wang Ming (a pseudonym), a forensic scientist working in a forensic Appraisal, told Clove: “This regulation is precisely the embodiment of the school’s responsibility for professional graduates. Every teacher in charge wants to give graduates a good Home, not graduate from the job.
Huaxi has always been a leader in our industry, and on the forensic front, it’s really really tough not for women. The main destination for forensic graduates, the priority wants to go to the civil service, but there may be restrictions by gender.
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Image source: a city civil service recruitment post screenshot
The next is to do public security forensics, and then the social institutions forensics, and then the insurance company claims underwriting. Social institutions forensic appraisal more welcome girls, in first-tier cities, women will be less pressure. The relevant institutions to make the appropriate adjustments, if not responsible, first fooled into, graduated, off what the institutions.
I have done the teaching secretary of the Department of Forensic Medicine, the face of the eventual graduates, did not find the right job, but also the pressure. But the conversion to irresponsible, what does it have to do with teachers. Now some second-tier institutions are far larger than the size of the first-tier institutions enrollment, and do not care about the employment rate of their graduates.
Who should be given the choice?
For Huaxi restrict girls to switch to forensic medicine this regulation, some people think that this is due to the hard work of forensic medicine, the school for the protection of girls; others think that this is due to the difficult employment of girls in forensic medicine, from the source to restrict girls into forensic medicine, in fact, is to help girls avoid the minefield.
Similar arguments, in fact, often appear in our more familiar clinical scenarios.
In a previous survey by Ding Xiang Yuan, many female doctors reported that they had suffered some ‘unfriendliness’ at work because of their gender.
Ye Qiuping (a pseudonym), a female surgical graduate student, told Clove: “When I used to practice in orthopedics, my senior brothers took special care of me. When I talked about wanting to go into orthopedics, they all advised me that orthopedic work was too tiring for a girl, and that I should go to internal medicine, or a less physically demanding department like thyroid surgery.
Surgery is ‘strength work’, in orthopedics, it is common to carry a thigh or something on the operating table, for girls, it does require a lot of strength, sometimes even physical training, while internal medicine in the traditional Perception, more delicate, relatively speaking, the working hours should be more fixed, to be able to take better care of the Family, but I feel quite uncomfortable.
Popular ‘expectations’ of gender continue to shape everyone’s role in society, and this force does not affect only women.
According to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), in 2017, the percentage of male obstetricians and gynecologists in the United States was 43%. Only 18% of medical students currently studying in obstetrics and gynecology are men. It is expected that by 2025, the percentage of female OB/GYNs in the United States will reach 2/3.
A national study showed that male students are less interested in obstetrics and gynecology than female students, and the main reasons why male students are reluctant to practice obstetrics and gynecology are focused on: female patients’ refusal to be seen by male physicians (84.0%), social prejudice (60.0%), and self-awareness of embarrassment (52.0%).
This invisible rejection also makes it increasingly difficult for men to work in obstetrics and gynecology.
After all, stereotypes are never a double-edged sword.
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