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Medicine Is Tough, So Why Do People Go Into It?

December 29, 2020

If you want a cushy career with plenty of benefits, you have a lot of options open to you. Insurance brokers, bankers, and legal professionals have relatively easy work once they get the hang of it, and they earn good money.

Medicine, on the other hand, is always tough. It requires you to take on tremendous responsibility for the lives of other people – and that in and of itself can be exhausting. Then, when you pile all the paperwork, long hours, and other pressures on top of that, it’s a surprise anyone goes into it.

So what’s the upside? Why are people going into medicine in increasingly high numbers? Let’s take a look at some of the reasons.

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Forget Gender Gap, Here’s Why Fewer Women Have A Tech Career

February 5, 2020

According to a report by Catalyst, the contribution by gender to the workforce is almost equal. Women constitute almost half of the workforce, which seems to indicate that gender has seized being an issue for professionals.

However, statistics for tech employment reveal a much different picture of the working world. Indeed, according to a report by Adeva IT, women only hold a quarter of the jobs in the tech industry. While the first explanation would be the consequences of the gender gap and how women lack education support to move to a STEM field, it would be inaccurate.

Indeed, more and more efforts and investments are made at an education and employment level to encourage women into a tech career. Perhaps, it is time to consider other potential factors that create a male-dominated technology environment.

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