There are plenty of male gynecologists and since I presume they are not working on men plenty of women choose male gynecologists as well. Maybe because men have warmer hands or to (as Sabine said) to avoid yakking. It would be wrong though for a hospital to not hire any male gynecologists as a matter of police or to prohibit men from going to female doctors as a matter of policy.
Exactly: no one is suggesting that men should not be gynecologists. Plenty of women will be perfectly happy with a male gynecologist just as plenty of women are quite happy with male taxi drivers.
But why should not women who prefer a female gynecologist or a female taxi driver or a female hair dresser, etc. be allowed to select females for those services? Similarly, why should not a man be able to choose a male urologist or a male hairdresser or a male tailor, etc?
Nor is there any policy forbidding men from seeking out livery service. No one has suggested that men be prohibited from driving taxis or from providing taxi service to women. The app merely helps women more conveniently locate a female driver if that is her preference. Men can easily seek out male drivers if that is their preference.
When I go for a mammogram, all personnel are female in that area, although there are from time to time, men who require mammograms. Similarly, a number of years ago, my husband needed a prostate biopsy and he told me that all staff in that area were male. In both cases, this is done to help ensure the comfort of the patients.
Are you saying that they actively discriminate in hiring? That would indeed be illegal. Different people naturally gravitating toward different specialties would not.
I am saying that in fact, only women work in the area providing mammograms and only men work in the area providing prostate biopsies, at least in the areas which have intimate patient contact. I have no idea of the gender of the radiologists or the pathologists who examine images or tissue samples.
I have my mammograms at a very large medical provider. There are many opportunities for people of all genders to work with patients. However, it is difficult to see why a man would insist upon administering a mammogram to a female patient or why a woman would insist upon performing the prostate biopsy if there were same gendered staff available to provide those services, given that patients are generally more comfortable with members of their own gender in regards to certain kinds of exams.
I know a lot of women who actively seek out female providers for gynecological services, be they NP, PA or MD OBGYN. For most women, this is not a matter of modesty or of competence of the provider but rather a degree of comfort and feeling of assurance that when one describes symptoms, the person who is doing the exam will be better able to relate and perhaps be better at offering suggestions. Certainly not all women feel this way and many women do not have a choice as to the gender of their provider, especially if they live in an area which is underserved by the medical profession.
No, it is not. It is running an app which will provide a much needed service to women who are currently very restricted in their movements as well as a much appreciated service for women who are more comfortable with female drivers for non-religious reasons.
I.e. sexism.
Indeed, there is sexim at work if a woman accepts a ride with an unrelated male and is then punished for that, be the punishment shaming, exclusion, physical abuse, even death.
It is not sexist of a woman to wish to avoid these consequences from members of her community or of society at large in areas where this is the predominate culture.
Consider as well that there are men whose religious beliefs also preclude them from riding with unknown female drivers. However, it is much less difficult for men to find male drivers than for women to find female drivers.
As you say, most drivers are male so men who don't want a female driver are not that likely to get one. But consider a man who (for religious or other reason) does not want to work under a woman. Should he be allowed to or should he be rightly branded a misogynist and told to either put up or leave?
Or women who do not wish to work for a woman. Or for a man. Or for someone who is LGBTQ. Or of a different race or ethnicity.
However, we are not talking about someone not accepting or balking at working for someone with whom they feel antipathy. We are talking about customers being allowed to select the provider of the service they are wishing to secure, using whatever criteria they choose. This is a service which will help individuals do just exactly that.
Similarly, should a man who is seeking a blow job from a prostitute be able to insist on only hiring a female prostitute? How is that different?
The company in question is the company running the sexist app and it is directly discriminating against male drivers and customers.
So you say, but the app still provides an all-male party a ride.
Through a different service. Like being referred to another bakery for your gay wedding cake.
Not quite. Bakeries which refuse to bake cakes for gay weddings are making a negative statement about the couple they are declining to provide service for. Women who, for whatever reason, prefer to ride with female drivers are not expressing disapproval of men or of male drivers or of men who drive taxis for hire. They are holding to their own personal beliefs about what is appropriate behavior for them: avoiding close contact with unrelated males as an expression of modesty. This modesty is enforced, by sometimes severe punishment, by their communities.
And if the customers are asking for a female driver, and get a female driver, who, exactly, is discriminating against male drivers?
Both the sexist customers and the sexist app that was created specifically to cater to their sexism.
How so? Why is preferring one gender to provide certain services sexist if the concern is not the competence of the service provider but rather the personal comfort and preferences of the person seeking the service.
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