Bertrand LEZIER has a very unusual job for a man: he is a midwife. Recruited after his internship, he is the only man in a service of 18 people. There are currently a dozen like him in France practising this profession. Other than the locker room, he has the same treatment and working conditions as his female colleagues. Dr Bernard BOUCLY, Head of Maternity Department of the Lens Hospital and Danièle ROBAKOWSKI, Chief Supervisor testify to his integration. However, he says that a patient sometimes took him for the duty doctor while accompanying a woman doctor on his tour. It is filmed in the maternity ward of Lens and during a delivery. He concludes by saying that helping to give birth to a baby is always very moving, and that he believes he is doing one of the most beautiful jobs in the world.
The midwifery competition disappeared in 2001 to be part of the medical competition. Students choose their career and specialty based on their ranking in the general competition at the end of their first year of medicine. The director of the school and students of the University of Caen give their opinion on the matter. The expansion of recruitment raises the question of motivation and vocation, especially of poorly rated students who would integrate midwifery training out of spite. On the contrary, some students think that the integration of the competition in the first year of medicine is an opportunity, a recognition of the profession and can help to create vocations, especially among men. The journalist asked a few students in a class of three boys and 20 girls about the increase in the number of male midwives.
The journalist interviews women on the street to find out what they think of a man working as a midwife. Second, the midwife Thierry de LUBAC explains that he had been asked to "masculinize" the name of the profession, but the term "maïeuticien" did not receive the approval of the national council, which preferred to keep the name of midwife.
François works as a midwife at the maternity ward of the Croix-Rousse hospital. Five men worked in this profession in Lyon, 80 in France for every 15,000 women. At the beginning of his career, he struggled to find a position in the hospital, as many department heads were suspicious of men giving birth. He thinks that the fact that the profession has long been exclusively female has served the profession. Occupational inequalities between men and women, both in pay and in the distribution of responsibilities, tend to change, but very slowly. The problem of the status of midwives, whatever their gender, remains the main demand of striking practitioners.
Many professions have no female, some have no male, as midwife, a profession exercised by Thierry de LUBAC. He is convinced of the validity of men’s involvement in pregnancy and childbirth processes, as are his female colleagues. This profession has only been open to men since 1982. He testifies to being mocked when he announces that he is practising midwifery. His interview is punctuated by images of his family on a walk.
Keiss WAHAB is a midwife, a profession traditionally devoted to women. Journalists are interested in her relations with her exclusively female colleagues and with patients. The scenes of the midwife at work alternate with her interview, those of a patient, Dominique BERRET, mother of three children and Corinne RIOU, responsible for midwives.
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