ABSTRACT
Despite definite, major progress and the fact that today’s new jobs are women’s jobs, the hierarchy ruling gender relations and traditional representations defining the respective vocations of women and men still prevails. Women’s massive entry into medicine has transformed the profession. The perception of the relationship between sex and profession has changed, in public opinion, as women took a strong hold on the medical profession. Women who launch into a high flying professional career are often condemned to being single. Never have men been faced with the choice between work and family in these terms. Women’s advancement and more equal status are consonant with the underlying trend that sends rich societies spiralling into ever greater individualism, whereas the unbridled cult of the individual is hardly conducive to long-term rationality. The prodigious rise of women’s educational levels has not been paralleled by full recognition of their qualifications in the business world.
