As society has grew, many people have had a stronger view of stereotypes, and still till today many people are still discriminated. Although discrimination based on ethnicity, race and gender has always been around, now it has also included career path. For the past years, there has been a lot of discrimination against men in nursing. Nursing has always been dominated by woman for histories, therefore it has been quite shameful for a man to express to other individuals that he is a nurse.
It wasn't till recently, I watched the movie
Meet the Parents, which showed a clear biased understanding of men who want to become nurses. In the movie, Gaylord Focker, a male nurse falls in love with a beautiful girl named Pam. When Focker visits Pam's parents, everything was a mess for him. Firstly, Pam's parents did not like Focker because he was a male nurse. When he was explaining to them that he preferred nursing, they took it as a joke. This shows that our society already demands men to become doctors, the dominant job in medical, and then for women to become nurses.
Men who go into nursing are always discriminated, because many individuals feel that nursing is more of a "feminine" job. The issue in this case is that gender discrimination is the same as other professions. Many other jobs I have encountered are also unequal for both gender roles. When I go to Dairy Queen, I only see women. The reason to Dairy Queen can be because of the name going under a Queen, rather than a King. Also, many construction jobs do not allow women, because they think construction is more of a "manly" job. Do you think nursing should be more of a feminine job, because it has been like that for all of history? Should society turn things around and make more female doctors and male nurses? Have you encountered applying for a job and being rejected because of your gender? Explain!
Nursing ain't a feminine job. good post Marwa! I strongly believe that if you have a job that is helping someone, there should not be issues regarding male and female status with that being said there shouldn't be issues with any boundaries if you are helping speed their health. Humans should not be concerned about males being nurses, it isn't an issue.
ReplyDeleteI thinks it's incredibly biased to say that nursing is a feminine job! For a long time being a doctor was seen as a mans job, but women are starting to take such positions now. What is even worse is that women are being praised for becoming doctors and breaking those boundaries, where as males are ridiculed. In today's current medical field there are many practicing male nurses, and many more to come. I think society should be less concerned about the stereotypes and more about the care.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't the thought of nursing being a feminine job basically imply that it's an easier job than being a doctor and that's why it's seen as a feminine job? I mean does this imply that men belittle themselves for taking on an occupation that society believes is suitable for women? Now that is disrespect because if women can be seen as doctors why can't men be seen as nurses. This is the same issue we discussed during a round table. It's okay for women to gain success but a man is flawed by society because he does something a women would normally do? This basically keeps enforcing the mind set that men shouldn't stoop to a women's level because then he is seen as less than a man.
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