Unfortunately, gender bias is still present in most of the institutions or work places. Even though many people act like there is no such occurrence, they may think it and in some situations reveal their discriminating thoughts. Gender bias is a phenomenon that has always been a part of our society. Although, with time passing this phenomenon has been reduce enormously, women still face gender bias in their work place or in everyday life situations. This phenomenon occurs because of personal perceptions or traditional views of men and women. In our time gender bias can be hard to spot, and may happen spontaneously in some situations. Women happen to be the majority of the victims of this occurrence, in their path to education and social institutions.
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For my ethnographic study, I tried to pick up a place where men are outnumbered by women, so I can actually see if men face that gender bias that women had to go through for centuries, and still face now. I chose to study the work day of a male nurse at his work place, as much as I was allowed by the institution, because the hospitals are very strict about people coming and going. The main focus of my project is to observe this minority in their profession, and observe their collaborations with doctor, female nurses and patients. Polit and Beck (2008) were the first to report the gender bias that supported females, and tested the hypothesis that the mean percentage of male nurses was less than 50 percent. I want to see if there is any gender bias or discrimination that affects males in the health care institutions, or makes a barrier for them to choose nursing as a profession. Male nurses are also stereotyped as feminine …show more content…
One of the female nurses said that it would look like a monastery if there would be no men in the hospital, and they really needed the men’s help with some heavy patients. After I finished my observation study, I was relieved to know that gender bias did not affect the people who work in one of the most important institutions of a country, the health care sector. The fact that affected me the most was the doctor’s behaviors against other staff members with a lower education than theirs. The hierarchy has the role to obtain the order of an institution but that does not mean that they have power over the other. According to my observation the male nurse were not affected from the gender bias in their workplace. In spite the fact that some people still hold on to old traditions, like senior citizens mostly, male nurses were not bothered from stereotypes that were created for male nurses . Even though nursing is still dominated by females, advances are made in the workplace which requires equality between male and female nurses. Stereotypes and role expectation continue to exist for both genders. A role expectation that affects men is that a man who enters nursing profession is considered as more feminine, but a person can think and act as it pleases, as long
For my ethnographic study, I tried to pick up a place where men are outnumbered by women, so I can actually see if men face that gender bias that women had to go through for centuries, and still face now. I chose to study the work day of a male nurse at his work place, as much as I was allowed by the institution, because the hospitals are very strict about people coming and going. The main focus of my project is to observe this minority in their profession, and observe their collaborations with doctor, female nurses and patients. Polit and Beck (2008) were the first to report the gender bias that supported females, and tested the hypothesis that the mean percentage of male nurses was less than 50 percent. I want to see if there is any gender bias or discrimination that affects males in the health care institutions, or makes a barrier for them to choose nursing as a profession. Male nurses are also stereotyped as feminine …show more content…
One of the female nurses said that it would look like a monastery if there would be no men in the hospital, and they really needed the men’s help with some heavy patients. After I finished my observation study, I was relieved to know that gender bias did not affect the people who work in one of the most important institutions of a country, the health care sector. The fact that affected me the most was the doctor’s behaviors against other staff members with a lower education than theirs. The hierarchy has the role to obtain the order of an institution but that does not mean that they have power over the other. According to my observation the male nurse were not affected from the gender bias in their workplace. In spite the fact that some people still hold on to old traditions, like senior citizens mostly, male nurses were not bothered from stereotypes that were created for male nurses . Even though nursing is still dominated by females, advances are made in the workplace which requires equality between male and female nurses. Stereotypes and role expectation continue to exist for both genders. A role expectation that affects men is that a man who enters nursing profession is considered as more feminine, but a person can think and act as it pleases, as long