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Why are there so many single female nurses and teachers? Posted: 8/24/2006 10:46:38 AM
Both occupations involve a lot of stress. nurses tend to have caregiving personalities (my mother was a nurse for about 40 years). you find the same characteristic in teachers (i taught for years).both areas require the individual to take a great deal of responsibility, but very little power and control.
Okay I find this unbelievable. Because unfortunately decades ago, this was a very true true statement. The teaching and nursing fields have both been dominated by women for so many years and I've always wondered why. The answer to that question lies, in fact, in society and how things were in past times. Men couldn't be teachers because they had to tend the farm, manage the railway, work in the mines, etc... I want to know who decided that women coudn't handle those jobs. Men didn't want to be "lowered" to the position of teaching young children or helping those in need when it comes to the title of "nurse." Men were doctors of course, because they are on the high end of the chain. Nurses and teachers were in areas of little power and control which is very sad. Today, there are definitely more and more male teachers and nurses, but still the females definitely dominate in those areas. I think perhaps the old stigma may be alive still.
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I agree i think the old stigma is still alive, which i totally don't understand because it makes no sense. Women can do men's jobs and vice versa. I think its getting better now. I see more male nurses than i ever have before but females still dominate these professions (nurses and teachers). Idk why this is either. Are males embarrassed to be nurses or teachers because it is female dominated? Do they feel like they are inferior? Idk but it's stupid.
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