Is there any point taking physics though if you don't want to do a physics degree/become a physics teacher?
Yes, you need it to get into dentistry, medicine and engineering. I did it at Higher, and Highers in Physcis, Biology and Chemistry are really essential for getting into those courses. Since the majority of medical students are now female and increasing, it seems bizarre that this is an increasing concern, because clearly plenty of girls are succeeding in these subjects and getting into medical and dental degrees.
Its a fantastic subject, much more interesting than Biology and even better than Chemistry, which is pretty interesting. Its the background for understanding so many other subjects and applications.
What I've noticed is that in the UK at the moment, there seems to be a bizarre trend for thinking women shouldn't work, and all this nonsense thinking about women and Physics is part of it. Its like something out of the 19th Century. If you look at some of the posts on here, you will see what I mean. Its possibly a minority thing, exacerbated by those on the internet being more representative of the group as a whole. But obviously if you have parents who think like that, they are not likely to produce that many female children who buck the trend and want to study subjects like physics, when they have been brought up to aspire to not working.
I distinctly remember my mother telling the school "my daughter will not be wasting her school hours doing Home Economics and will be using the period for extra academic study instead" - they didn't argue with her.