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Gender based Professions: the impact of the Professionalisation of nursing on male nurses during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Title:Gender based Professions: the impact of the Professionalisation of nursing on male nurses during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By M M A Coulter. Source: Foundations of Professional Nursing, Semester 1, undergraduate (2006). Abstract: The professionalisation of nursing during the nineteenth and twentieth century was a contributing factor in marginalizing male nurses but it appears from research that it is not the most important contributing factor in today's society that keeps men from taking up nursing. During the nineteenth century Nightingale promoted a model of a gender based profession that put in place physical barriers that excluded males, and their roles within the profession were marginalized. Males became a token gender in nursing due to the need for physical strength to restrain clients in asylums and mental institutions and men were pushed into this perimeter during the first one hundred years of the nightingale nursing model. During the last fifty years, however,...
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