I'm just going to preface this by pointing out that I didn't actually read all of the OP due to a philosophical opposition to giant walls of text, but I think you've kind of missed the point in a few places.
Also please don't call people names. That's not nice.
On 08/01/15 10:52, geni wrote:
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
Are male nurses paid more than female ones? Otherwise that's not really relevant.
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.
I think that was supposed to be a joke. Gender disparities exist across the field in both low-paying and high-paying fields, but generally the focus is only to get more women into higher-paying ones, especially ones involving technology.
In a way it does seem to be a bit of a tangent here, where contributors aren't necessarily paid in the first place, but research into how we as a movement fit into the overall pattern of field-based gender disparities might show a solid connection. It'd certainly be interesting, if nothing else, especially if folks were to compare both regionally and globally.
(Think professional STEM fields.)
I'm a chemist you insensitive clod. Depending on what you are doing it can be dirty or dangerous.
I get that you disagree, but that's not helping anything.
-I