[AMP-L] Do Women Make for Better Prosthetists?
Wayne Renardson
wayne.renardson at comcast.net
Wed Aug 23 14:40:32 PDT 2023
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.
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