[AMP-L] Do Women Make for Better Prosthetists?

[Wayne Renardson]

via Amplitude:

Women Bring New Perspectives to Amputee Care. 

When Arlene Gillis finished college in 1994, she was the only woman 
in the whole country that year who earned a prosthetics and orthotics 
degree. In the generation since, women have joined the profession in 
droves-by 2014, they made up about 20 percent of registered 
practitioners, and the proportion has continued to grow. 

Many of today´s O&P degree programs enroll more women than men, often 
to a lopsided degree. Within another generation, the clinician 
population may be close to a 50-50 split between women and men.   

The rest of the story, with photo, here:

https://tinyurl.com/28gbqcls

Wayne R.