International Women's Day Saturday 8 March

Our practice is majority male doctors. The wait to see one of the two female GPs is about 8-12 weeks. All the doctors are thorough but the women better listeners, more empathic

mabon1 The percentage of women doctors is 50.04% which is pretty much representative of the female/male ratio of the general population.

There is research to show that patients treated by women doctors have better health outcomes. The mortality rate for patients treated by women doctors is lower.

One reason for this is thought to be that women are socialised to be better listeners.

In 1965 only 25% of doctors were women
Today it's double that. Surely that's a reason to be glad?

Please tell me why you are so glad that there are more female doctors than male doctors. Surely,
a 50/50 ratio is fair.

Sago ?

Do you think they are celebrating in Afghanistan ?

Isn't it time we started giving girls/women lessons in self defence? At the same time teach ALL young boys to treat the opposite sex with courtesy and respect. We must stop this violence that women are going through

We need to raise good sons with good attitudes. I have two lovely adult sons who abhor the likes of Andrew Tate & his ilk. It really helped that their Dad is a great role model.

Happy birthday ViceVersa 🥳🤩
And have a good IWD everyone, whilst remembering girls/women presently struggling to survive. 🙏🏾🙏🏾

Happy IWD and happy birthday ViceVersa here's to you

ViceVersa - indeed, and Happy Birthday 🎂

I love that March 8th is International Women's Day, partly because it also happens to be my birthday.
Here’s to strong women: May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.

I got up first and made the tea this morning!

I suppose you don't have to be a feminist, or even a woman, to appreciate IWD just mindful of the contribution that women all over the world make to all aspects of life on earth.

I just hope that come November 19 IMD is seen in a similar light and not a vehicle for promoting misogyny.

I always find it interesting that some men are 'cancelled' as soon as anything happens and others are allowed to thrive.
Boy George, Woody Allen, their careers carry on, what they did was about a thousand times worse than the Gregg wallaces of this world.

I agree with you Babs03. Nihal Arthanayake has said something similar on Instagram today. www.instagram.com/p/DG3_SScsx2y/

Sorry Churchview I know that in the case you mention Lowe was reported.
This should happen as a matter of course, and when reported those reports must be taken seriously and not just ignored.

Churchview

Reform's Rupert Lowe has been reported to the police by his own party chairman. The party received complaints from two female employees about "serious bullying" in Mr Lowe's office.

They reveal the complaints were made to Parliamentary authorities, and say they received evidence of workplace bullying.

These included "evidence of derogatory and discriminatory remarks made about women, including reference to a perceived disability."

This is where other men have to step up and report this kind of misogynistic behaviour rather than turning a blind eye.
When Greg Wallace was busy being a sex pest there were other men around him who must have seen his behaviour over the years but kept their heads down. Men have to tackle this because women are sick and tired of trying to turn the tide and being called a raving feminist or WOKE.

Reform's Rupert Lowe has been reported to the police by his own party chairman. The party received complaints from two female employees about "serious bullying" in Mr Lowe's office.

They reveal the complaints were made to Parliamentary authorities, and say they received evidence of workplace bullying.

These included "evidence of derogatory and discriminatory remarks made about women, including reference to a perceived disability."

Feminists are often accused of being man haters but their dislike of men is nothing compared to tsunami of hatred directed towards women that emanates from the manosphere.

If you look up feminism on Youtube some feminist stuff comes up but also a load of anti-feminist gunk included some idiot woman apologising for having been a feminist as she has now seen the light.

With half the population of the world female, and a mere fraction actually being educated and having a job/career, or even permitted to leave the house unaccompanied, I think feminism hasn’t gone anywhere near far enough. Not even here in a so called civilised country, where numbers of women abused and killed or coerced and controlled is way too high.

I frequently hear the 'feminism has gone too far' comments from women which is even more astonishing to me.

Women saying things like, 'Of course men are afraid to open doors for women now without being criticised - feminism has gone too far'. Or, 'My daughter in law expects my son to cook a meal when he comes home from work' despite the fact that the daughter in law also works AND did the school run on the way home.

If they leave they are frequently killed.

One of my irritations (🥴) is the often repeated claim that feminism has gone too far, that’s why the Tate brothers have such a strong following

mae13

International Women's Day will come and go and we'll still have men with a Master of the House mentality demanding dinner on the table when they click their fingers.
And we'll still have women being knocked about if dinner is 5 minutes late, if the favourite football team has lost a match or if Neanderthal Man has simply had a "bad day" at work.

Sadly this is true. And for this reason there has to be far more help available for women trying to escape. People often ask why women don’t just leave, but if these women don’t have anywhere to go, and may have children as well, they often feel trapped.
Also unless these abusive males are dealt with swiftly and effectively by our justice system they will just go looking for the woman who has escaped and make sure she is unable to ever do it again. Local police also have to be quick in responding to calls for help.