Amid nurse shortage, a university rolls out the welcome mat for men
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#2I think we should create a masculine-sounding word for "nurse", like "(patient/care) (guardian/maintainer/technician)". Nursing still sounds like breastfeeding (check the etymology!), which I'd reckon sounds offputting to most men.
Neologisms are cringe, but demeaning men is as well.
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#3I wonder how many comments will complain about DEI for men.
Re: Amid nurse shortage, a university rolls out the welcome mat for men
#4I wonder how many comments will complain about DEI for men.
When I was a kid, I thought that nurse/doctor was a gender specific term. They went to the same schools, but when they graduated, men were called "doctors" and girls were called "nurses". It was an embarrassing moment when I found out that, no, they are not the same thing.
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#6I have been wondering how long it would start to take before historically female roles would start courting men the way STEM has been courting women the last couple of decades
After years of "why are men dropping out of the workforce" articles it seems we finally are seeing some people come to their senses that yes, you do actually still have to "court" men to enter different careers to make it seem like appealing work for them to do
Re: Amid nurse shortage, a university rolls out the welcome mat for men
#7I think we should create a masculine-sounding word for "nurse", like "(patient/care) (guardian/maintainer/technician)". Nursing still sounds like breastfeeding (check the etymology!), which I'd reckon sounds offputting to most men. Neologisms are cringe, but demeaning men is as well.
This is a nice idea but I think practically the shift will come not from instituting gender-affirming nomenclature but rather redefining male biases.
The idea of being involved in an important (and historically female) profession dedicated to compassionate care should be received as honorable by men irrespective of the job title's femininity. I disagree that it's demeaning.
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#8I wonder how many comments will complain about DEI for men.
It's not DEI.
When you're short on nurses, trying to invite men isn't DEI.
If we had plenty of qualified nurses, but hospitals made quotas saying that 20% of nurses must be men, that would be DEI.
It's replacing merit (let me sort for "best available nurse" and hire that person) with another attribute (let me sort for "male nurse," then sort for "best available nurse in the male group", and hire that person). If you hire the best available male nurse, you may have passed on the best available nurse. Given the demographics of nursing, seems likely.
Anyway, they're not talking about having a surplus of candidates, so that doesn't apply.
Re: Amid nurse shortage, a university rolls out the welcome mat for men
#9I think we should create a masculine-sounding word for "nurse", like "(patient/care) (guardian/maintainer/technician)". Nursing still sounds like breastfeeding (check the etymology!), which I'd reckon sounds offputting to most men. Neologisms are cringe, but demeaning men is as well.
This is a nice idea but I think practically the shift will come not from instituting gender-affirming nomenclature but rather redefining male biases. The idea of being involved in an important (and historically female) profession dedicated to compassionate care should be received as honorable by men irrespective of the job title's femininity. I disagree that it's demeaning.
I think what would help a lot would be a strong male nurse as a lead in a medical television drama. We've had strong male nurses in secondary characters, but not as leads or co-leads.
A sexy male nurse should appeal quite strongly to the traditional medical drama audience; it'd let a studio follow the traditional formula but be enough of a change that it's not a rehash.
Re: Amid nurse shortage, a university rolls out the welcome mat for men
#10I think we should create a masculine-sounding word for "nurse", like "(patient/care) (guardian/maintainer/technician)". Nursing still sounds like breastfeeding (check the etymology!), which I'd reckon sounds offputting to most men. Neologisms are cringe, but demeaning men is as well.
"Patient Care Technician" is already a thing, it's a level under nurse