I am a 2nd year nursing student writing a research paper about nursing being a predominantly female field. I am trying to find some sources and additional info, could anyone help? Thanks!
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March 28th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
just look at the history of nursing… florence nightingale, the red cross, etc…. females have always had the caregiving role, then it turned into nursing during times of war, etc… to look at the history of nursing, you’ll have to look at the history of wars, red cross, army, etc…
March 31st, 2009 at 7:30 am
monks/monasteries were traditional places of healing. Men tended to run these places. If nuns were around, the men gave the orders.
Men could go to university to study healing/medicine, women were not allowed to. So the nuns were always told to listen to the learned ‘brothers’ cause they had university learning.
I’m talking as far back as the 12th century.
If a women did know better, and applied her skills, she was usually accused of witch craft and burnt at the stake.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:34 am
It’s all to do with women having smaller feet…
Oh no, wait – that’s doing the washing up. Sorry. 😉
Nursing is an empathic vocation. It’s about being in touch with someone else’s wants and needs. Women innately have that skill.
Men are more numbers and lines and shapes and stuff.
Or to get technical…
The brain has too main areas in decision making –
the limbic system and the frontal lobe.
The limbic system is about feelings and emotions.
The frontal lobe about logic and rationalisation.
Different genders generally perform differently in these areas.
More here:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/563705_4
‘Fight-or-Flight’ vs ‘Tend-and-Befriend’
A noticeable theory based on neuroendocrine and behavioral evidence posits that stress responses may be characterized by ‘fight-or-flight’ in men and ‘tend-and-befriend’ in women (Taylor et al., 2000). Evolutionarily, males have to confront a stressor—such as a predator—either by overcoming or fleeing it. Females respond to stress by nurturing offspring and affiliating with social groups that maximize the survival of the species in times of adversity. Whereas the physiological stress response typically involves activation of the sympathetic nervous system and the HPA axis in both genders, the female stress response may specifically build on attachment-caregiving processes (especially those mediated by oxytocin) that buffer the sympathetic and HPA arousal.
April 1st, 2009 at 7:17 am
Contrary to popular belief, nursing was not always a female-dominated profession. Going back to the middle ages, monasteries, who were populated with men at the time, took care of many of the sick and injured. Going back even further, in 600 AD, Pope Gregory commissioned Abbot Probus to build a hospital in Jerusalem to take care of the many pilgrims to the Holy Land. In 800 AD, Charlemagne enlarged it and added a library. In 1080, the Knights Hospitaller were founded and continued the work Probus began.
A lot of the information can be found by googling.
April 3rd, 2009 at 6:23 pm
How about this question:
With all the social changes in this country over last 40 years or so — especially involving gender — why is nursing “still” dominated by women? Why hasn’t affirmative action or quotas or incentives entered into nursing? This isea that women just have the qualities needed for nursing and most men don’t — if you’re old enough, you’ll recall those same arguments used many years ago used against women trying to enter male dominated professions.
And, if nursing is a profession that’s “just” best suited for women, someone name me a profession that’s “just” bsst suited for men? It seems that nearly all (if not all) professions that were dominated by men have been opened up to women, through legislation if needed. But that’s not the case with professions that have been and are dominated by women.
Someone tell me, what’s the nursing profession doing to encourage more men to become nurses?
April 5th, 2009 at 11:51 am
ah, i think men make better firemen, just from the practical heavy lifting and fitness side. I know a couple of female fire fighters, and they gotta work extra hard to be on the same footing physically as the men.
There’s a bunch of jobs out there that are better suited to men, just because they are physical. There’s nothing sexist in it, it’s just common sense.