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| Are
career women now a dying
breed? Dr Johanna
Wood (GP in Orpington,
Kent) wonders if women
are victims of their own
success, with genes so
selfish that they don't
want to be shared. |
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| They
are a generation of forty
somethings who have made it to
the top of their professional
ladders. Some have hauled up
partners who can tolerate life
beside them, squashed |
| Precariously
on the narrow perch. But look
back down the ladder and there is
a void. Where are the tiny toes
on the bottom rungs? Where are
their children? |
| We
all know the answer. They have
decided to exchange the
tribulation of parenthood for
career advancement, and why not?
They have done as well as. and
often better than the boys. They
heard their biological clocks
ticking, heard midnight strike,
and then just called for the next
patient and carried on working.
Unlike their male contemporaries,
who can scatter their seed abroad
for another 40 years, they
settled for job |
| A
selfish gene |
| These
exceptional women, who do so much
good for society, are not going
to reproduce. If there's a gene
that has permitted them to
sacrifice motherhood in the
pursuit of their careers, it's a
gene so selfish it won't consent
to share itself with the next
generation. It's more than
selfish. It's a terminator gene
and it's taking out a whole
generation of women who wanted to
have it all. They are a dying
breed, because for every Nicola
Horlick with her five children
there are ten of these
high-flying women with no issue |
| Talents
taken to the grave |
| Is
that what nature intended? What
place can there be in the human
gene pool for women who refuse to
reproduce? They live out their
dedicated and obsessive lives die
rich and sometimes famous, and
their great gifts go to the grave
with them. Is this the ultimate
destination of the career doctor.
Consigned to a page in the
sociology textbooks along with
the lady's maid? |
| I
have to declare an interest. I am
a doctor who spotted where my
selfish gene was leading me and
did a Nicola Horlick instead and
I will let you in on a secret. I
have foreseen a career
opportunity in the next
millennium. My five children are
going to be lady's maids and look
after my contemporaries in their
lonely old age. Someone's got to
do it. |
| Published
in GP, November 12, page 66
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