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Davin Pester-Wiggins 1/24/2023 SOC350 Prof. Penka & class, I can recall that there have been very informative viewpoints from all of you students in this class. We each have displayed our skills in having an educated response to bias, which is very useful to drive our future into a beautiful & diverse one. For this final blog in the course I would like to dig even deeper and discuss an issue that I am almost certain most of you will be very shocked to hear. Now the issue of bias that I would like to discuss is one that pertains to me personally since I am a male healthcare worker. There is a bias that is hushed in the healthcare field and that is males having masculinity being a threatening factor to the people working with them as well as the patients who have their own lives in our hands. There is mainly a sense in the healthcare field that men can handle the ‘tough work’, and that women are better for their patience, compassion, and elegance. Now both of these beliefs are both absolutely biased and should not be the way of the system in which healthcare workers operate, but sadly- this is simply not the case. In a study conducted for the course of several decades, there was a series of male nurses interviewed to see the effects of gender bias in a female-dominant profession. It was clear from the study that males had a series of issues, and were often, “asked to lift and move patients more often than their female colleagues occurred across the continuum. Males were considered professionally misplaced, often asked, “Why are you not a doctor?”.”(M. Finnegan, May 2019, P.2). I can completely relate to this because there was a shift where a patient was getting violent with the staff and I was immediately taken out of another room to protect all of the women there. I ended up hurting my back in an effort to restrain the patient, which was luckily successful. This happens to male nurses across the board and it has a physical and mental effect on us. Now although there are many different negative aspects of being a male in a female dominant profession- there are some perks to it. I have the advantage of being slightly physically able than women based on my physique and since most patients are older, they have an outdated mentality that men are the ones who know what they’re doing and can be trusted. Men can even excel in their position and rate of pay based on this feature. For example, “in female-dominated occupations such as nursing, patriarchal gender relations which reflect a high valuation of all that

is male and masculine, play a significant role in situating a disproportionate number of men in administrative and elite specialty positions.” (J. Evans RN, June 2008, P.1). This has personally been a positive aspect for me in being a male healthcare worker , although it isn’t very fair either way you look at it. Like any workplace, if there is balance then there is room for equality and I think that if there were more male nurses, it would balance out the drastic outnumbering of women to men in the clinical setting. Normalization of males being in traditionally female positions like nursing needs to be normalized and, “Encouraging more men to enter the nursing profession can help address the current nursing shortage crisis by not only increasing the quantity of nurses, but also the quality of patient care. Encouraging more men to enter the nursing profession can help address the current nursing shortage crisis by not only increasing the quantity of nurses, but also the quality of patient care.” This change could be done by having more representation of men in healthcare roles in commercials, website media, and even books. Sources: Joan Evans, “Men in Nursing: Issues of Gender Segregation and Hidden Advantage.” Researchgate, Journal of Advanced Nursing, (1997, pp. 226–231) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-2648.1997.1997026226.x Micheal Finnegan, “Male Nurses’ Experience of gender stereotyping over the past five decades, a narrative approach.” May 2019, P.2 https://digitalcommons.molloy.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1077&context=etd Steven Ross Johnson, “Amid Shortages and Burnout, Could Adding More Men Ease the Nation's Nursing Woes?” April 28 2022, P.1 https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-04-28/could-adding-more-men-help-so lve-the-nations-nursing-woes

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