My Day at the Public Health Clinic
(I don’t talk about my professional life very much, and I don’t intend to make a start at it, but this is just too interesting to pass up.)
The other day I agreed to be a member of a panel discussion about various health care related goings-on at public health clinics in the state where I live. The panel discussion was about the various information collection systems I design, but it was the meetings that I attended before this occurred that were most notable, including those on OB/GYN examination procedures, which involved both videos and/or demonstrations.
I was the only male in attendance in a crowd of about 80 people (me being the representative from the IT department).
I had two separate women come up to me and personally “apologize” for what I had seen, which was apparently something horrible.
I must’ve missed that part, because I had no idea what they were talking about.
December 9th, 2008 at 13:41
The only guy there. Why was that? Other then the topic of discussion, of course.
December 9th, 2008 at 17:36
Who knows? Apparently, there’s just not a lot of men applying for the “Family Health Services” department. Or, they are and they’re not being hired.
Either way, it’s a horrible double standard — FHS has a 99% female population, and no one says a thing, but if the IT department is over 75% male, everyone’s up in arms about “discrimination.”