On 8 January 2015 at 07:07, mcc99 mcc99@hotmail.com wrote:
If you ask any RN the names of the greatest contributors to the nursing profession, you'll get a stream of women's names. To suggest that nursing "needs" more men or else it won't be able to achieve its greatest potential would be a crass and inaccurate insult to the many thousands of women who have made modern nursing what it is. Of course there have been and will be male nurses who stand out as contributors, but only a very small percentage, probably in keeping with the ratio of men to women in nursing. And yet, despite the high salaries RNs command, are there any gov't-sponsored initiatives to get men into nursing?
In fact nurses get paid less than the male national average wage. This is clearly some definition of high salaries I wasn't previously familiar with
If so, it'd be news to me and many others. But I ask, if men by and large, for whatever reasons, aren't interested in becoming nurses, why make a big deal about it?
Reducing the recruitment pool is less than ideal. However the number of men training to be nurses has been increasing so it is probably felt the problem will solve itself.
Are there gov't-sponsored campaigns to get more women into the relatively lucrative job of refuse collection?
Ah you can tell the piece you are recycling from is dated. Post privatisation refuse collection has ceased to be a particularly lucrative job.
Or, the likewise lucrative jobs of plumber,
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/business/business-news/call-more-women-construc...
Although again due to eastern European labour plumbing isn't as lucrative as it used to be.
ordnance disposal engineer,
I understand there have been various attempts to recruit women into the military
nuclear materials technician, etc.? No. But other fields that are a lot less dirty and/or dangerous, yes.
Were you under the impression that nuclear materials technician was dirty and/or dangerous? For very obvious reasons it isn't. However the nuclear industry has been downsizing of late so I don't think there are significant programs to recruit anyone.
(Think professional STEM fields.)
I'm a chemist you insensitive clod. Depending on what you are doing it can be dirty or dangerous.