In class we had talked a lot about how women were affected in the workplace. How they couldn't get jobs or were discriminated against because they were a mother or thought about having children. We talked about how they were getting paid less because of the type of field they had gotten into. So bottom line is we focused mostly on women in the workplace.
I wanted to use this blog to bring to the attention of how jobs are also stereotyping against men, and how people view certain jobs as only masculine or feminism. In particular the job of nursing. I came across a video that talks about how nursing is only seen as a job for a women, and how they are trying to get more men involved. As the demands for nurses keeps increasing throughout the years, it was said in this video that there were roughly 1/2 million job openings for nurses nationally every year and only 6% of nurses are men. It talks about certain things like the outfits that people think about when they hear the word nurse is a dress outfit and the name nurse in general comes across as feminine.
Check the video out and see if you agree...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PnqCDVT1PE&feature=related
I also like how they talk about how this is a perception problem, and how they are trying to get more male nurses out to share their stories. I think this is a great idea and that it would benefit in helping get more men into a nursing career.
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