I'm just going to preface this by pointing out that I didn't actually
read all of the OP due to a philosophical opposition to giant walls of
text, but I think you've kind of missed the point in a few places.
Also please don't call people names. That's not nice.
On 08/01/15 10:52, geni wrote:
On 8 January 2015 at 07:07, mcc99 <mc...@hotmail.com> wrote:
If you ask any RN the names of the greatest contributors to the nursing
profession, you'll get a stream of women's names. To suggest that nursing
"needs" more men or else it won't be able to achieve its greatest potential
would be a crass and inaccurate insult to the many thousands of women who
have made modern nursing what it is. Of course there have been and will be
male nurses who stand out as contributors, but only a very small
percentage, probably in keeping with the ratio of men to women in nursing.
And yet, despite the high salaries RNs command, are there any
gov't-sponsored initiatives to get men into nursing?
In fact nurses get paid less than the male national average wage. This is
clearly some definition of high salaries I wasn't previously familiar with
Are male nurses paid more than female ones? Otherwise that's not really
relevant.
If so, it'd be news to me and many others. But I ask, if men by and
large, for whatever reasons, aren't interested in becoming nurses, why make
a big deal about it?
Reducing the recruitment pool is less than ideal. However the number of men
training to be nurses has been increasing so it is probably felt the
problem will solve itself.
Are there gov't-sponsored campaigns to get more women into the relatively
lucrative job of refuse collection?
Ah you can tell the piece you are recycling from is dated. Post
privatisation refuse collection has ceased to be a particularly lucrative
job.
I think that was supposed to be a joke. Gender disparities exist across
the field in both low-paying and high-paying fields, but generally the
focus is only to get more women into higher-paying ones, especially ones
involving technology.
In a way it does seem to be a bit of a tangent here, where contributors
aren't necessarily paid in the first place, but research into how we as
a movement fit into the overall pattern of field-based gender
disparities might show a solid connection. It'd certainly be
interesting, if nothing else, especially if folks were to compare both
regionally and globally.
(Think professional STEM fields.)
I'm a chemist you insensitive clod. Depending on what you are doing it can
be dirty or dangerous.
I get that you disagree, but that's not helping anything.
-I
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