The gender pay gap: the more studies confirm its existence, the more hotly it is debated. Research has demonstrated over and again that, overall, men with identical qualifications consistently earn more than women to perform the same job. President John F. Kennedy already signed a law, the Equal Pay...
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There are probably as many as 300,000 male Registered Nurses in the United States – although, as we found out in our last post on #MenInNursing, what the exact number is really depends on whom you ask. What we know for sure is that the number has been steadily rising over the years. Just two generat...
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There was a time when legal barriers kept men from working as nurses and “nursing schools often refused to admit men.” It took a Supreme Court ruling in 1982 to change that, the report Men in Nursing Occupations recounted. These days it’s hard to imagine that it was ever so. Male Registered Nurses n...
Read more →More and more men are taking “pink collar jobs” like teaching and nursing, fields that traditionally have been dominated by women. While the economy definitely has a part, the trend began well before the crash, and is being driven by a variety of factors including financial concerns, quality-of-life...
Read more →© Minerva Studio – Fotolia.com The nursing field is still dominated by women, but more and more men are joining their ranks. The stigma is fading, and the opportunities are beckoning. For students like Trevor Potts, interviewed in an article in the South Dakota State University newspaper, the chance...
Read more →Decades ago there was a bias towards male nurses but does that still exist today? Many male and female nurses say that although they have encountered or heard about gender discrimination against men, they believe it is the fault of a few individuals rather than a pervasive problem. “Most nurses don’...
Read more →Today there are 2.1 million registered nurses in the United States and only 5.4% of them are male. Men also make up only 13% of all new nursing students, according to MinorityNurse.com. Obviously these statistics point to a female dominant field, yet history reveals a different story. During the Mid...
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