Ignorance Portrayed Through Media

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According to Dennis Prager, the increase in number of women doctors is detrimental to our country because men "get more self worth from their profession therefore they are far more willing to  bust their chops and work more hours than women". This rant is misogynistic and and shows just how much the view of female doctors is misconstrued by society. Because apparently every female doctor has a family and children that she devotes most of her time to which takes away from her work ethic towards her career. The fact that he has the audacity to claim that men put more effort into their careers than women and then says he's "not being sexist, just stating facts" shows how a patriarchal society is harmful to the careers of women. He implies that the duty of women is to raise children and manage a family, which is why they are unable to work a full schedule and thereby taking a position form a man who could devote the appropriate amount of time. The article he is discussing was written by a female anesthesiologist that is points out the hardships of working full time and being a full time mother and that when considering the medical field as a profession realize that you will not be the most involved mother. Prager takes this story and turns it into "evidence" against admitting females into medical school.