I think that we need to give even more value to nursing. In part, because the latter is majority male. I think that we need to keep pushing until nursing is as valued as it should be. The nature of nursing is nurturing, which is a traditionally female trait. However, I think that the more we learn about medicine and health care, the more we realize that nurturing is an essential ingredient for curing, helping patients - therefore, I think that we need to keep pushing for this quality to be valued.
Nursing can be a great benefit to certain feminist issues.
For instance, in the United States, there is now Nursing Students for Choice , which is pushing for nurses to be trained in abortion procedures. So, nursing can also fill in the gaps in doctoring. And those are likely to be sexist gaps. All rights reserved.