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Medicine had female nurses before it had female doctors, so maybe that helped?
by jiggy2011 12y ago
Medicine had female nurses before it had female doctors, so maybe that helped?
- e12e 12y agoI don't think so. It's (almost) like saying law firms had female secretaries. AFAIK most places have trouble recruiting enough male nurses (and probably secretaries?) -- so it's not like the gender balance is uniform across "legal" or "health".
- jiggy2011 12y agoI'm thinking of the case where for example a female nurse encourages her daughter to become a doctor because it is a more aspirational career in the same field. OTOH a male doctor is probably not as likely to encourage his son to become a nurse because that is generally perceived as a step down in terms of prestige and pay.