Choosing a specialty.

surgery perhaps being one exception because it may require greater physical strength than most women possess; on the other hand, women are perhaps better suited than men to some specialties such as family planning. Most women marry within two years of qualifying as a doctor and most have a family. Their problems arise partly from living in a country which provides far less support than many other Western nations for married women with young children who want to continue to work full time; partly from living in a society which by and large expects the woman's professional career to come second to her husband's; partly from having chosen a profession which has many specialties that are unsuited to part time training; and partly from the difficulty in providing geographically convenient training posts in those specialties which are suitable for part time training.