[Women and part-time employment in the medical profession]

During a conference of this journal the following matters were raised: (a) part-time work in medicine, although generally accepted socially for men and women is not precisely advisable for those who want to move up to higher functions; (b) owing to the long duration of medical studies, physicians are late to marry and raise a family; (c) the ambition of medical women, amply present at the medical finals, often proves to extend no further than pregnancy; (d) the career of female doctors shows a kink caused mostly by family duties and inadequacy of day nurseries; (e) the current excessive workload of (senior) medical functionaries reduces many women's ambition to attain such functions. Women who want to study medicine should consider much earlier than is nowadays the case what they want and can become within the limits of their possibilities in the wide field of medicine. Energetic striving for shortening of the training period may result in earlier fulfilment of the wish to have children.