End of Occupational Segregation in the Nursing Profession

2020 ◽  
pp. 262-284
Author(s):  
Selcen Kılıçaslan-Gökoğlu ◽  
Engin Bağış Öztürk
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Occupational Segregation ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Ecological Change ◽  
Meaning Of Work ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Gender Neutral ◽  
Female Nurses

This chapter focuses on how female nurses make sense of their occupations as the perception of their profession changes from gender-biased to gender-neutral. Nursing is one of those rare professions with occupational segregation in favor of females, but one that is changing as more males enter the profession. While there are many occupational segregation studies to explain male and female nurses' perspectives, research on how female nurses reconsider their views about the profession is scarce. Therefore, this chapter will address this change for females by utilizing a conceptual analysis, specifically the cognitive sense-making perspective. Referring to the phases of the cognitive sense-making (ecological change, enactment, selection, and retention), this chapter examines how the meaning of the nursing profession and the meaning of work in general is changing for females.

End of Occupational Segregation in the Nursing Profession

2021 ◽  
pp. 418-433
Author(s):  
Selcen Kılıçaslan-Gökoğlu ◽  
Engin Bağış Öztürk
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Occupational Segregation ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Ecological Change ◽  
Meaning Of Work ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Gender Neutral ◽  
Female Nurses

This chapter focuses on how female nurses make sense of their occupations as the perception of their profession changes from gender-biased to gender-neutral. Nursing is one of those rare professions with occupational segregation in favor of females, but one that is changing as more males enter the profession. While there are many occupational segregation studies to explain male and female nurses' perspectives, research on how female nurses reconsider their views about the profession is scarce. Therefore, this chapter will address this change for females by utilizing a conceptual analysis, specifically the cognitive sense-making perspective. Referring to the phases of the cognitive sense-making (ecological change, enactment, selection, and retention), this chapter examines how the meaning of the nursing profession and the meaning of work in general is changing for females.

scholarly journals Beginnings of nursing education and nurses’ contribution to nursing professional development in Serbia

2014 ◽  
Vol 142 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 628-636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeljko Vlaisavljevic ◽  
Natasa Colovic ◽  
Mirjana Perisic
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Gynecology And Obstetrics ◽  
Great Merit ◽  
Short Courses ◽  
Female Nurses ◽  
Nursing Professional ◽  
Annual Award

The oldest records of developmental beginnings of patients? healthcare relate to the first hospital founded by St. Sava at the monastery Studenica in 1199. The profile of the Kosovian girl became the hallmark of nursing profession in Serbia. The first school for midwives was founded in 1899 at the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics of the General State Hospital in Belgrade. However, there were no other schools for nurses in Serbia until the foundation of the School for Midwives of the Red Cross Society in 1021. Until then the healthcare of patients and the injured was carried out by self-taught volunteer nurses with completed short courses of patients? healthcare. The first course for male and female nurses was organized by the Serbian Red Cross at the beginning of the First Serbian-Turkish War in 1876. During wars with Serbian participation in 19th and 20th centuries with Serbian participation, nurses gave a remarkable contribution being exposed to extreme efforts and often sacrificing their own lives. In war times great merit belongs to the members of the humanitarian society the Circle of Serbian Sisters founded in Belgrade in 1903, which was the resource of a great number of nurses who became the pride of nursing profession. Generations of nurses were educated on their example. In 2004 the annual award ?Dusica Spasic? was established which is awarded to the best medical nurse in Serbia. Dusica Spasic was a medical nurse that died at her workplace, when aged 23 years, nursing the sick from variola.

scholarly journals A longitudinal investigation of the glass-ceiling in nursing

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-109
Author(s):  
Helen Woolnough ◽  
Sandra Fielden ◽  
Sarah Crozier ◽  
Carianne Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Glass Ceiling ◽  
Matched Control ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Mental Health Nurses ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Matched Control Group ◽  
Female Nurses ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Over Time

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a longitudinal, qualitative study exploring changes in the attributional constructions of sense-making in the perceptions and lived experiences of the glass-ceiling among a cohort of female mental health nurses in the National Health Service who participated in a 12-month multi-faceted career and leadership development pilot programme compared to a matched control group. Design/methodology/approach The authors interviewed 27 female mental health nurses in the UK who participated in a multi-faceted development programme specifically designed to support female nurses secure career advancement and 27 members of a matched control group who did not experience the programme. Participants engaged in semi-structured telephone interviews at three separate time points (six months apart) over a 12-month period. Findings Programme participants differed in their attributional constructions of sense-making in relation to the glass-ceiling over time compared to the matched control group, e.g., triggering understandings and awakenings and re-evaluating the glass-ceiling above when promoted. Findings are used to theorise about the glass-ceiling as a concept that shifts and changes over time as a function of experience. Practical implications Practical implications include important organisational outcomes in relation to fostering the career advancement and retention of talented female leaders at all career stages. Originality/value The authors present the first known longitudinal, qualitative study to explore changes in attributional constructions of sense-making in perceptions and experiences of the glass-ceiling among female nurses over time compared to a matched control group.

Lohnungleichheiten zwischen Akademikerinnen und Akademikern: Der Einfluss von fachlicher Spezialisierung, frauendominierten Fächern und beruflicher Segregation / Wage Inequality between Male and Female University Graduates: The Influence of Occupational Specialization, Female-Dominated Subjects and Occupational Segregation

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrin Leuze ◽  
Susanne Strauß
Keyword(s):  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Occupational Segregation ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen

ZusammenfassungAuf der Suche nach einer Erklärung für die bestehenden Lohnungleichheiten zwischen Männern und Frauen mit Hochschulabschluss untersucht der Artikel drei verschiedene Erklärungsansätze: Erstens die humankapitaltheoretische Erklärung, dass Frauen durch die Wahl von weniger berufsspezifischen Studienfächern finanzielle Nachteile auf dem Arbeitsmarkt erfahren; zweitens die These der Abwertung von frauendominierten Studienfächern, wie sie von feministisch-kulturellen Theorien beschrieben wird, und drittens die Bedeutung von Berufssegregation für Lohnungleichheiten, die durch die kulturelle Abwertung von Frauenberufen, aber auch durch institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen wie das deutsche System der tariflichen Lohnverhandlungen geprägt ist. Auf der Grundlage des HIS-Absolventenpanels 1997 werden die logarithmierten Brutto-Monatslöhne von vollzeiterwerbstätigen Männern und Frauen fünf Jahre nach Abschluss ihres Studiums modelliert. Die Ergebnisse unterstützen vor allem die These einer Diskriminierung von frauendominierten Studienfächern und Berufen, durch die jeweils 19 bzw. 13 Prozent der Lohnungleichheiten zwischen Akademikerinnen und Akademikern erklärt werden. Die Wahl von berufsunspezifischen Studienfächern scheint hingegen keinen Einfluss auf die Lohnentwicklung zu haben.

scholarly journals The Differences in Stress Levels of Male and Female Nurses at Hospitals

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sendhi Tristanti Puspitasari ◽  
Samsul Arifin ◽  
Anggaunitakiranantika . ◽  
Farah Farida Tantiani ◽  
Ludi Wishnu Wardhana
Keyword(s):  
Work Stress ◽  
Stress Level ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Male Nurses ◽  
P Value ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Stress Levels ◽  
Female Nurses

A study conducted by Northwestern National Life stated that around 40% of workers experienced work-related stress. One of the professions who has a high risk of stress is nursing. This research aims to analyze the differences in stress levels of male and female nurses, employing a quantitative method and a cross sectional approach. There were 73 respondents, all of whom were nurses at X Hospital. Random sampling was used in this research. Chi Square test was carried out to determine the relationship between gender and work stress levels. The results showed that the majority of nurses were women (78.1% or 57 people) and male nurses accounted for the remaining 21.9% (16 people). A higher number of female nurses experience high stress (15.8%) compared to male nurses (12.5%). The result of the analysis of the gender effect on stress levels in X Hospital nurses generated p-value of 0.745 indicating that p value > 0.05. This result shows that there is no significant effect of gender on the stress level of nurses in Hospital X. Accordingly, from the hypothesis tested, it is proven that there is no significant relationship between the gender of nurses and work stress experienced. Keywords: Stress Level, Nurse, Hospital

Male and female nurses in intensive-care wards in The Netherlands

1990 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theo WN Dassen ◽  
Frans JN Nijhuis ◽  
Hans Philipsen
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Nurses

scholarly journals “This Is What a Mechanic Sounds Like”: Children’s Vocal Control Reveals Implicit Occupational Stereotypes

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 957-967
Author(s):  
Valentina Cartei ◽  
Jane Oakhill ◽  
Alan Garnham ◽  
Robin Banerjee ◽  
David Reby
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotyping ◽  
Voice Pitch ◽  
Occupational Stereotypes ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Simple Tool ◽  
Occupational Stereotyping ◽  
Vocal Control ◽  
Gender Neutral ◽  
Occupational Gender ◽  
The Voice

In this study, we explored the use of variation in sex-related cues of the voice to investigate implicit occupational stereotyping in children. Eighty-two children between the ages of 5 and 10 years took part in an imitation task in which they were provided with descriptions of nine occupations (three traditionally male, three traditionally female, and three gender-neutral professions) and asked to give voices to them (e.g., “How would a mechanic say . . . ?”). Overall, children adapted their voices to conform to gender-stereotyped expectations by masculinizing (lowering voice pitch and resonance) and feminizing (raising voice pitch and resonance) their voices for the traditionally male and female occupations, respectively. The magnitude of these shifts increased with age, particularly in boys, and was not mediated by children’s explicit stereotyping of the same occupations. We conclude by proposing a simple tool based on voice pitch for assessing levels of implicit occupational-gender stereotyping in children.

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