Bodies Matter: Men, Masculinity, and the Gendered Division of Labour in Nursing

Evans, Joan

doi:10.1080/14427591.2004.9686527

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“…Male nurses are often found in management positions in nursing because of the division of labour based on gender that is even found in a female-dominated profession (Evans 2004) and other prestigious well paid positions in health care (Stott 2004). They also have an advantage over their female colleagues in that male physicians, who are in some countries still the majority, treat them as equals while male physicians often tend to look down on female nurses as a result of their being female and of a lower status professionally (Ellis, Meeker & Hyde 2006).…”

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“…The founder of modern day nursing, Florence Nightingale, however, established nursing as a women's occupation (Evans 2004). The emphasis was on caring (Stott 2006) and nursing obtained a feminine culture (Sullivan 2000) and became a "symbol of the monumental struggle faced by women to find a profession that was respected and valued" as a women's profession (Davis & Bartfay 2001).…”

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“…Men in nursing are not only a minority group (Wilson 2005); they also have to continuously defend their career choice and their sexuality (Evans and Frank 2003), as they are often stereotyped as homosexual (a spoiled or compromised sexuality according to society) (Evans 2004) and for being in the 'wrong' profession. They are men who have joined a female profession and their male peers (and often even female peers) in society do not understand or support their decisions.…”

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“…Male nurses are part of a privileged group in society on the notion of their male superiority (Morrell, Jewkes & Lindegger 2012), but are at the same time associated with nursing, which compromises their prestige in society as nursing is associated with poor social values (Evans 2004) and the work of women (Sullivan 2000). In the nursing fraternity male nurses are often a minority group (Patterson & Morin 2002;Wilson 2005) and often have to study and work under supervision of women (MacIntosh 2002).…”

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Two male nurses’ experiences of caring for female patients after intimate partner violence: a South African perspective

Wyk

Wath

2015

Contemporary Nurse

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Background: South Africa is perceived to be one of the countries with the worst reputation regarding the occurrence of intimate partner violence. The women who suffer from serious physical injuries are admitted to emergency care units and their first contact with healthcare is through the nurses in these units. Emergency care nurses become secondary victims of violence due to their exposure to the pain of assaulted patients. Female nurses tend to identify with these patients as some nurses are in similar relationships. Not much research has been done on the challenges that male nurses face when they are confronted with abuse of women inflicted by males. Methodology:In this case study with a phenomenological research methodology two African male emergency care nurses were interviewed. Findings:The participants experienced a dichotomy of being-in-nursing and being-in-society and had been confronted with the conflicting roles of being men (the same sex as the perpetrators) and being nurses (the carer of the victim). They tried to manage the situation by using the 'self' to care for the patient and to be a problem solver for the patient and her partner or husband. Conclusion:The authors conclude that society expects men not to be in a caring profession and nursing is still a female-dominated caring profession that finds it difficult to move away from its engendered and caring image. The participants experienced role conflict when they took care of female patients who have suffered intimate partner violence.

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Two male nurses’ experiences of caring for female patients after intimate partner violence: a South African perspective

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2015

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“…The role model of nurse has long been recognized as caring, nurturing, gentleness and empathy which is in contrast to the traditional male characters of masculine, aggression, dominant and power [27,28]. However, the history of male nursing tells a different story.…”

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Exploring gender-stereotype barriers and advantages of Hong Kong Male Nurses

2018

JNH

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The purpose of this research is to explore the gender issues and identify the barriers faced by the local male nurses and students in their workplaces or clinical practicum. This project involves individual interviews with male nurses and nursing students and it aims to understand their perceptions towards the gender issues happened in clinical areas and identify the barriers that hindered their learning and career development.A pilot study has been conducted from April to June 2018, four common themes of local gender barriers were identified.

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Emotional labour and identity work of men in caring roles

Simpson¹

2007

Gendering Emotions in Organizations

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This paper presents the findings of a research project on the implications of men's nontraditional career choices, specifically those that involve caring roles, for the performance of emotional labour and for gender identity. The research is based on 25 in-depth interviews with male nurses and primary school teachers in the UK. Results suggest firstly that men 'appropriate' caring as a valued resource which is separate from caring performed by women, secondly that a division of emotional labour emerges that is drawn on 'tradition' gender lines and thirdly that men adopt various strategies to help align their work and gender identity and to minimize tensions between the two. The dynamics of performing 'women's work' and of maintaining and reproducing masculinities within the non-traditional 'caring' work setting are discussed in the light of recent theorising around gender, emotions and organizations.

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Bodies Matter: Men, Masculinity, and the Gendered Division of Labour in Nursing

Cited by 28 publications

References 20 publications

Two male nurses’ experiences of caring for female patients after intimate partner violence: a South African perspective

Two male nurses’ experiences of caring for female patients after intimate partner violence: a South African perspective

Exploring gender-stereotype barriers and advantages of Hong Kong Male Nurses

Emotional labour and identity work of men in caring roles

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