Quote Originally Posted by jackson.alan46 View Post
How times have changed My Mum was a doctor, graduating during World War II. There were far fewer female medical students then (and the exams were no easier just because there was a war). She did her first year as a junior doctor living in hospital for no salary . Now over half of all medical graduates are female. Luckily, for various reasons, my Mum didn't have to work full time until my brother and I were teenagers, and it would have been a waste of her training and talent if she hadn't been able to do that. But as kids we were glad to have her around home .
Interesting to learn your mother had been a doctor too, Alan. And you're right ... "how times HAVE changed!". I knew that there was a much smaller intake of female entrants to the Medical Profession back in those days. But I hadn't realised that the few that there were had been unsalaried during their first year as junior doctors. Can you imagine the outcry there'd be if that were the case nowadays?

I salute your mum for putting her career on hold until her boys reached adolescence. As you say, it WOULD, indeed, have been a waste of her training and talent had she been prevented from utilising her skills by that point.