We are sex segregated into jobs from childhood to adulthood because at an early age we are encouraged by other people to choose a career that we can do. For example, when I was younger people would ask me what I wanted to be when I was older and I would always say a doctor. Their response would always be the similar “well that’s going to be quite the challenge.” I never knew if that was because it would be a lot of schooling and a lot of work or if it was because there wasn’t a lot of women in this profession. According to the reading “Women were 6 percent of those getting MDs in 1960, 23 percent in 1980, 43 percent in 2000, and 49 percent in 2007 (Paula England 346).” When I was going to school to pursue a pre-med degree, I had a hard time
