>> Nothing in the definition of a nurse implies female. Unfortunately it's not a great example with which to make this point. Before Florence Nightingale, a nu

>> Nothing in the definition of a nurse implies female. Unfortunately it's not a great example with which to make this point. Before Florence Nightingale, a nurse was a person who was employed to suckle your babies. Of course 100% were female. Wet nurse was a later coining to differentiate the two meanings.