By NY Daily News, 02/07/2022
“… History shows that as men pursued lucrative and high-status jobs, nursing became dominated by women and continues to be one of the most sex-segregated occupations. There’s a parallel tendency to stereotype and tie the quality of “caring” to only one sex. Even in the semantics, the term “nursing” itself has been considered a deterrent for men, as it evokes images of a mother nursing her child…”
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