Salary Differences In Nursing Research

Despite the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which promised to eliminate the imbalance between wages, based on gender of workers, in the same position it has been shown that males earn more. This phenomenon has been branded as the ‘glass escalator’. Even in traditionally ‘feminine’ careers such as a teaching and nursing, males will earn more than a female counterpart with equal qualifications. In the research article titled “Salary Differences Between Male and Female Registered Nurses in the United States” published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the issue of unequal pay distribution between male and female registered nurses is addressed. The purpose of the study “was to examine salaries of males and females in nursing over time …show more content…
The purpose of the study was “to explore the relationship between organisational support, organisational identification, and organisational citizenship behaviour and the predictors of organisational citizenship behaviour in Taiwanese male nurses.” (Chen, Yu, Hsu, Lin, Lou, p.1, 2013) The study clearly stated that it was approved by the 2009-IRB-047, by Meiho University Institutional Review Board.
A cross-sectional research design was used to investigate multiple hypotheses surrounding organizational citizenship behavior and how to increase it within male nurses. The data for the research was collected from a 2010 questionnaire mailed to 167 male nurses in Taiwan in which 109 valid surveys were returned meaning there was 65.2% response rate. A strength in this research is the design. The researchers are able to adequately analyze the data collected from more than one group of male nurses which includes those who are more experienced and those who are not thus at a higher risk for turnover. Also four structured instruments were used in this study. First a pilot test was used to confirm the completeness and importance of the items in the instruments: The Perceived Organisational Support Inventory, The Organisational Identification Questionnaire and The Organisational Citizenship Behaviour …show more content…
Gender-based stereotypes and discrimination plays a major role in the life of a male nurse. A descriptive, qualitative study was done in southwestern Ontario to explore issues surrounding recruitment, retention, and work life satisfaction for men who are nurses working in acute care settings. The methods used were purposive and snowball sampling. Sixteen men participated in four focus groups conducted in three communities in southwestern Ontario. During the study, these men revealed that work stress, lack of full-time opportunities, and gender-based stereotypes contributed to job dissatisfaction. As a result of these gender-based stereotypes, men have difficulties with both their fellow colleagues and