Gender problems in my career:

The gender problems are present at the health careers, especially in nursery and midwifery.
I don´t know if gender problems happens in other countries. But I think that it depends on the culture. For example, in countries where people are more reserved, the gender probably could be a problem, especially in midwifery.
In Chile, when obstetrics and puericulture appeared, all the students were girls. But this situation has been changed, because each year comes to study more men to this career.
I think that be a man-midwife have profits related with the relationship between women and professional. This is because generally women feels more confidence or security with men than with women and because women usually think that men don´t know about the women´s pains so they work carefully.
I don´t know if those feelings and thoughts are true or not, but many times it helps women to be assisted in a better way according their necessities during their process.
To reduce the gender problem in midwifery, we have to include men in our job, recognizing their capacities working with women, because in the practice they shows a really good relationship with their patients, in fact, many women feels comfortable after been assisted by a man.