The Biases We Hold

My last two doctors have been women.  (But the ones before that were men.) So I've had female doctors for a couple of decades now.

So when I say "my doctor" my brain knows I mean a woman.

So it struck me as odd when two different people assumed my doctor is a he,when I mentioned "my doctor something something."

And even more?  Both of them were women, in the health care fields.  So that old school thing of expecting a doctor to be a man (lots of reasons behind that being the norm for a long long time) is still ingrained in a lot of minds.  I know they didn't mean much by it, it's just a habit born out of what's most frequent but still... I noticed.