Only 0.4% of UK midwives are men
I used to give my first-year sociology students the following question:
A young boy develops acute appendicitis and is taken to hospital for an emergency operation. In the operating theatre, the surgeon looks down at the patient and gasps ‘That’s my son!’ The boy is the surgeon’s son, but the surgeon is not his father — so who is the surgeon?’
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