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Are nursing stereotypes hurting our health care? Attracting more men to the profession could improve conditions and save lives

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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…”

Read the entire article: https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-nursing-health-care-20220207-4bnk7klxm5eqbapvpkbgvnx63u-story.html