Quote:It's not just at my facility. Every sonographer I've ever talked to has the policy in place that males need chaperones for those procedures. The reason most facilities have the policy in place is to ensure female patients they are save and prevent sexual assault from happening. That's fine, I have no problem with that. The lack of a similar policy being in place for females performing exams on male patients is where the double standard exists. Are female sonographers incapable of sexually assaulting a male patient when performing a scrotal ultrasound? One would have to be incredibly naive to think that.

 

Furthermore, considering that breast and pelvic ultrasounds are probably about 20% of what we do, it negatively affects employment opportunities. A hospital is not suppose to be allowed to discriminate against gender, but why would they hire a female over a male when they will have to pay for the male to have a chaperone during some exams?

 

You ask why I bring this up. It's because this is something that I have a significant amount of personal history with and every female in the profession I have talked to agrees that the double standard exists. It's a good discussion to have with people who are unaware of double standards that negatively affect men.

 

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Regarding your first bold point.  A short story.

 

Way back in my younger years I worked as a Deputy Sheriff.  One policy that we had in place was that a male officer was not allowed to frisk a female in custody, and vice versa.  This was done to prevent a liability situation more so than to prevent a sexual assault.  I imagine that's why the policy is in place for your profession.  It's not really to prevent an assault from happening, it's more to protect from being accused of an assault.  I could be wrong on this, but I would bet that's why the rule is in place.

 

Regarding the second part in bold, yes it is a double standard.

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