User:Bazziy/sandbox

1. The first wiki page that I would like to edit and or add more too would be the "Sexism in Medicine" page (Sexism in medicine). The page does a great job at outlining the issues regarding the topic. It has a sub section titled female clinicians and it discusses the issues regarding sexism in medicine (i.e. discusses the wage gap). However, I feel as if it can go into greater detail. For example, I would maybe add in a little more issues such as female clinicians not being able to accept leadership positions because their employers are afraid of them taking off after having a child (if they have a child). So in other words, the issues regarding part-time work and how women are discouraged to advance in their careers because of that. I would also introduce the term "The Glass Ceiling" into that section so that the readers understand that the goal for these women to reach equality is to break through the metaphorical glass ceiling
   1. What I will be contributing
      1. Statistics regarding the difference of women working part-time with children and full-time with children (92.7% of female physicians who worked at a hospital and 96.3% of general female physicians who had children worked part-time in comparison to the 59.2% of female hospital physicians and 76.5% of general female physicians what worked full time after having children (Reed 2001)
      2. Discuss how women are more likely to make career choices regarding medicine because of their desire to marry and start a family. Why? because the medical field does not support the idea of women in leadership positions with families
      3. Gender Bias within medicine -- females in residency completed a lower number of procedures in comparison to their male classmates and this often leads to a disadvantage because of a lack of practice (Kiliminster 2007)
      4. I would add on to the already discussed topic about sexual harassment in the article with this statistic-- A smaller study revealed that 54% of women in comparison to the 16% of men were more likely to be treated differently by their employers and co-workers because of their sex (Edmunds, 2016). There are often times in which U.S fourth year female medical students are mistaken for non-physicians (92% compared to the male 3%) which leads to the idea that women must work twice as hard in order to be seen as equals (Edmunds, 2016).
         1. Citations for the previous statistics
         2. Reed, V., and B. Buddeberg-Fischer. “Career Obstacles for Women in Medicine: An Overview.” MEDICAL EDUCATION –OXFORD-, no. 2, 2001, p. 139. EBSCOhost.
         3. Edmunds, Laurel D., et al. “Review: Why Do Women Choose or Reject Careers in Academic Medicine? A Narrative Review of Empirical Evidence.” The Lancet, vol. 388, Dec. 2016, pp. 2948–2958. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(15)01091-0.
         4. Kilminster, S., et al. “Women in Medicine – Is There a Problem? A Literature Review of the Changing Gender Composition, Structures and Occupational Cultures in Medicine.” MEDICAL EDUCATION –OCFORD-, no. 1, 2007, p. 39. EBSCOhost.
2. The second wiki page that I would want to edit would me "Women in Medicine" (Women in medicine). This page does a good job explaining the history of women in medicine and how they came to be. It discusses the women's health movement in 1970 which is obviously important when explaining the increase of women in the medical field. However, I feel as if this page would benefit if it gave an update on women today. Such an update would include statistics of women in medicine now and what fields that dominate. I would maybe add in information that discusses the positive changes, but also how more can be done to those changes because there are still issues that these women face (i.e. gender bias, wage gap etc). I would talk about some of the obstacles that women face now with this increase of women in the medical field and what can be done to diminish them.
3. The third wiki page that I would like to add to would be Women in the Workforce (Women in the workforce). This page does a great job and explaining the issues regarding women in the workforce. Although it is not specific to women in medicine, I still feel like I could contribute to it using my knowledge. I could add some statistics using women in medicine as an example. I think this would be powerful because a lot of people don't associate white-collar jobs as occupations that exhibit such issues but if I can add statistical values to such an issue then maybe it will draw attention to the issue even more. I can use values such as the number of women who work part time with children than those who work full time with children or without children. I can also add the percentage of women who are not given opportunities to reach leadership positions within their work because employers fear women will take off if they have children etc.