Female Supremacy Articles - Page 23

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Already, more than half of Canada's doctors and dentists are women. Given the current trend, odds are by 2015, your pediatrician, investment broker, family veterinarian, divorce lawyer and therapist will be a woman but your computer technician, housing contractor, electrical engineer, and orthopedic surgeon will still, most likely, be a man. At McGill, 60 percent of medical students are women. Females also hold down most of the spots in architecture, law, dentistry, environmental science, and management.

The gender gap is even more startling at Quebec's French-language universities. At Universite de Montreal and Universite Laval, seven in 10 medical students are women. Same goes for U de M's future dentists, pharmacists, optometrists and veterinarians. More than 60 percent of law and business undergrads are female. Spurred by mentoring programs and government-sponsored initiatives such as Chapeau, les Filles!, women now make up a whopping 78.9 percent of students in U de M's science faculty. Meanwhile, men have made only marginal incursions into disciplines that have been traditionally female. Women are holding their own in social work and nursing. Elementary-school education and clinical psychology are more female-dominated than ever.