In Medical Dailey's article entitled "Male Nurses On TV continue To Be Emasculated; Stereotypes Translate Into Real-Life Perspectives states that TV shows may have some kind of negative effect on the way that viewers see male nurses.
This article states that even though male nurses have tripled since 1970, TV shows have continued to put down their roles in the medical field, making it difficult for health care facilities to keep them.
For example, I watch Grey's Anatomy and most of the characters do put down the nurses in the show. The main characters are surgical doctors so most of the time them and nurses are against each other, going at it any chance they get.
What is wrong with this? I just don't think it matters what gender you are. If you're good at your job, you work hard, and the job gets done; weather you are a boy or a girl is completely irrelevant.
Dr. Roslyn Weaver, a lead author of the study of "told Reuters," states '"People don't make decisions about which profession to choose just based of television, but student have told us that popular TV shows can help them choose a career, or that TV perpetuates negative stereotypes about nursing that they then have to address in practice."'
Handling the pressure of someones life being put in your hands is more stressful then anyone should have to handle, but dealing with the fact of people and possibly even your coworkers making fun of you because of your profession is just crazy.
Do I stereotype male nurses? No and I'll tell you why. Ever since I could talk I wanted to become a registered nurse so I was always interested with what they do, not on if they were female or male.
Medical Dailey further acknowledges that men who are married or that has a girlfriend that also work in female-dominated professions do 25 percent more of the house work then those who work in "muscular" professions.
Perhaps these men hear women at work talking about how their men don't do as much as they'd like so they would take the side tips and do more when their wives need them to.
My question would be... males who do more for their wives/girlfriends put them in a better mood, correct? If this is happing more and more with men who work in a female-dominated work place, wouldn't it make since that male nurses could be more of an advantage rather than negative stereotypes?
