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Discuss Gender: Medicine and Power
Discussion: Gender: Medicine and Power

Doing so only increases the inveteracy of gender role stereotypes and disadvantages both female nursing students and the development of the nursing profession. Many have stressed that what affects the quality of med- ical care is the masculinity and femininity (the social dimension) of medical professionals, and not their bio- logical gender role. In other words, a feminine male nurse can establish a better nurse-patient relationship than can a masculine female nurse (Wu, 1999).Thus, we suggest that, in the course of educating nursing students of dif- ferent genders, it is proper to stress masculinity and fem-

ininity instead of biological gender roles to encourage the nursing students of different genders who possess these two characters and treat the students with various char- acters (maseulinity or femininity) equally. In addition to relieving student role strain during their courses of study, such would be helpful in relieving perceptions of mas- culine superiority and replacing the current situation of long-standing inequity between medicine and nursing.

Wood, T L. (2004). Male in nursing: Perceptions of their education experience. Unpublished doctoral disserta- tion. University of Saint Louis, Missouri.

Wu, C. L. (1999). Gender: Medicine and power. In Y. K. Wang (Ed.), Gender relationships: Gender and society, construction (1st ed., pp. 373-399). Taipei, Taiwan, ROC: Psychological Press.

Works Cited

Ya-Ling, Tzeng, et al. “Role Strain of Different Gender Nursing Students in Obstetrics Practice: A Comparative Study.” Journal of Nursing Research (Taiwan Nurses Association), vol. 17, no. 1, Mar. 2009, pp. 1-9. EBSCOhost, aurarialibrary.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=39565584.

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