Originally Posted by
Godfather
I'm not sure that makes sense though. The names sound similar but I really can't picture many people sitting there having a choice between one or the other as career paths. Psychology is something you can get an associate degree in from community college that probably doesn't even make you employable. Psychiatry means you went all the way through a science undergrad and then med school, before being accepted into a 4-5 year residency program to become a board certified physician in psychiatry.
Also maybe psychiatry was male dominated historically, but these days psychiatry residencies are dominated by women by about 2:1, at least in Canada.