Male Nurses

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Claire Cain Miller, The Time Is Ripe for Male Nurses. New York Times, Jan 5, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/interact ... ot/male-nurses.html

Quote:

“Only 13 percent of nurses in the United States are men [still the paper says this is head and shoulder above others in the West and Brazil], but that share has grown steadily since 1960, when the number was 2 percent, according to a working paper published in October by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

"Nursing is no paragon of gender equality: Even though men are a minority, they are paid more than women.

"The median salary is $68,450, about the same as the median salary for college-educated workers over all.

"The paper * * * found that the increase in male nurses was largely uniform across the country, although black and Hispanic men and those in rural areas were less likely to become nurses [the second clause is not surprising: few minorities in biological research, either, which a white male classmate of mine at University of Illinois unhappily attributed to favorable treatment of those races: if they were good enough, they would be accepted by, and went to, medical schools].

"Nursing is a career that both men and women often start later in life, in part because it's possible to become certified midcareer [which I guess means a second or third career] and without a bachelor’s degree. But as hospitals increasingly require nurses to have a four-year degree

"Nearly half of nurse anesthetists, one of the highest-paying nursing jobs, are men [this is anticipated: women of child-bearing age have a qualm working in an operation room, for fear of teratogenic effects of anesthetics, which patients breathe in and then out].

"Sometimes patients prefer a nurse of a certain sex, particularly for procedures like inserting a catheter, nurses said

"Nursing became a woman's job because women were seen as natural caregivers, said Patricia D'Antonio, a nursing historian at the University of Pennsylvania. But until the second half of the 19th century [women were not sent to war zones, due to dangers] That began to change when Florence Nightingale brought a group of female nurses to the Crimean War in 1854 [1853 – 1856; result: Russian Empire lost to an alliance of Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia].

My comment:
(a) There is no need to read the rest.
(b)
(i) The paper referred to is
Elizabeth Munnich and Abigail Wozniak, What Explains the Rising Share of US Men in Registered Nursing?
(ii) Wozniak is a surname found in Poland and Ukraine (including Jews there). Abigail Wozniak is not related to Steve Wozniak, a Jewish co-founder of Apple.
(c) Quotation 3 surprises me; I thought nursing is a well-paying job, well above the average. The starting salary for a nurse who just graduated at Mass General Hospital was ~$45,000 disregarding signing bonus, one such told me a few years ago.
(d) Regarding the penultimate quotation, see, eg, urinary catheterization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinary_catheterization
(e) All male nurses and one male nursing student in this report enter the profession as a second and third career.
(f)
(i) 男丁格爾 Male Nightingale. 佛教慈濟綜合醫院, Apr 6, 2007
app.tzuchi.com.tw/file/DivIntro/nursing/content/200704-06-02/p8-9.pdf
("台灣男護士崛起於軍護教育時期，據了解，國立台灣大學於 1948年曾招收10名男護生，但這項創舉隨後就停止。護理界正式 有男性的加入應該是從1985年開始，即21年前，台北護專（現改 制為國立台北護理學院）開始招收男性學生。 * * * 目前花蓮慈濟醫院有14位男護士及護理師，佔全院護理人員的 比例約2%")

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(ii) 白剑峰, 中国 '护士先生' 达2.1万人 仍为 '稀缺资源.'  人民日报, May 12, 2010
("据卫生部注册护士信息数据库最新统计，截至目前，我国的注册护士总量已达218万人，其中男护士为2.1万人，约占注册护士总数的1%")