Gender Norms In Health Care

The purpose of this study is to determine the impact social norms have on gender roles. Social norms can be described as group views of how affiliates should behave in a certain perspective (Baron, 2009). Gender roles are the behavioral norms that are considered appropriate for either males or females in a social or personal relationship (Baron, 2009). This inquiry will test the influence social norms has on gender roles in marriage. There will be a total of 100 college students who will participate in a correlational study, 50% female and 50% male, with an average age of 20 years. College students will be asked to complete a five-minute survey on cultural background and how they view gender roles in a marriage and participate in a twenty-minute focus group. This study will test the following hypothesis: Students who are most likely to have a traditional cultural upbringing will repeat more submissive gender role stereotypical marriages, than students who had a liberal upbringing. Traditional cultural upbringing can be described as conforming to conventional norms based on observational learning. Liberal upbringing is based on non-limited, views, laws and restrictions. The independent variable is the student’s cultural upbringing and the dependent variable is how they view gender roles in marriages.

Elizabeth Blackwell not only saved many people’s lives but also broke the gender barrier in the medical field. She successfully established the Women’s Medical College and trained generations of women physicians. She also challenged and encouraged other doctors to provide medical service to the poor. Elizabeth Blackwell was born on February 3, 1821, in Bristol England. Her father believed that women should be equally educated as men, so he provided Elizabeth and her sisters excellent education. Elizabeth moved to America with her family when she was 11, in 1832. She first began teaching in a boarding school that her sisters founded, but later she decided to apply for medical school. She was rejected by Harvard, Yale, and other schools, and

51 percent of the United States is female but only 34.4 percent of doctors are women. While 90.4 percent of nurses are female (“Women in Medicine”; “Male Nurses Becoming”), the women who do become doctors earn an astounding 25 percent less than their male counterparts (Groves). These staggering figures are only a single piece in the larger overall lack of women in STEM, or science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, which has remained prevalent since the beginning of these fields. Although women are underrepresented in these STEM fields, this is not due to ineptitude, but instead it is a result of the force of societal stereotypes coupled with their wider range of abilities. The recent increase in women’s association with STEM seems

Gender Affirming care: For transgender people, this refers to the process of coming to recognize, accept, and express one’s gender identity. Most often, this refers to the period when a person makes social, legal, and/or medical changes, such as changing their clothing, name, sex designation, and using medical interventions. This process is often called gender affirmation because it allows people to affirm their gender identity by making outward changes. Gender affirmation/ transition can greatly improve a transgender person’s mental health and general well-being. A theory I personally believe that no character or any physical appearance can’t be prior than being human. I personally believe that sexual orientation is not more important than a human nature and his own appearance. A transgender should get a treat as a normal human Bing.

Reading the Grant and Sandberg’s article a nd doing this assignment was really eye opening for me. Not nessisarly related to my own experience but It made be very aware of how much of the services provide in the chemical depencedny recovery field are driven by a gender dichotomy. It also made me concern for the parents that may not identify as male or female and how they may not be successful in treatment because of it and how that can jeperdize reunification with their children.

According to the latest survey by the United States Census Bureau, there are about 330,000 male nurses in America. However, there are approximately 3.5 million nurses total, which means that only nine percent of people in this profession are men; the percentage has increased 6.9 percent in the last forty years. I believe that both genders should have the option of becoming a nurse. Males pursuing the nursing profession is sometimes frowned upon, since society has a negative stigma that males should be doctors if they enter the health field. This harmful stereotype causes unnecessary hesitation for men wanting to become a nurse and makes them feel judged. Male nurses can supply strength for tasks that many female nurses do not possess, and

In past centuries, only women attended to women during childbirth. Men were usually not involved, unless they were needed for their strength or other emergencies. However, with the medicalization of childbirth, the presence of male physicians emerged. By the 19th century, tensions between male physicians and midwives heightened as male physicians began to introduce new techniques and anatomical knowledge that interfered with the traditional social birthing process. Much of this tension rose from the gender roles that categorized the work and success of men and women within the work of childbirth. In A Midwife’s Tale, Laurel Ulrich explores Martha’s diary to present the challenges midwives faced during the late 18th century. Midwives, such as Martha Ballard, were challenged by male physicians and diverged from the style of their work because of the perception that omen were considered more emotional, nurturing, and social in their work while men were more knowledgeable of science, anatomy, and new tools.

Gender plays a huge role in the health care setting, for instants majority of patients now days would ask for a female doctor on the bases that they are more understanding. When it comes to male or female whether it be in the health care field or another work environment they think completely different on almost every topic. Males use more of assertiveness, and facts based, while females tend to use more emotion and strategic approaches. Women spend more time with their patients getting the gist of what they are feeling and a better idea of how they are going to treat the symptoms, while men on the other hand may usual only see you for about fifteen minutes get the diagnosis, answers maybe one or two questions uses the logical approach and

I don’t know what it feels like to be a doctor that has to look at their patient and say, “I don’t know. I don’t know what’s wrong with you. I can’t fix it. I’m sorry.” I don’t know what it feels like, but I know what it looks like. They get a crease between their eyebrows, stand hunched over as if exhausted from a long day, and try to avoid looking you in the eye. They suggest tests, possible answers that they really don’t have much evidence for, and tell you that they’ll give you some pain medication in the meantime.

In many ways, fiction of each era reflects the insecurities, concerns, and ideals of its generation. Through fiction, authors are able to construct entire universes of their own fantasy, with characters that both reject and adhere to traditional conceptions of what is considered to be socially acceptable. The same holds true for works of the fin-de-siècle (end-of-century). Authors of the late 19th and early 20th century question traditional Victorian notions of the boundaries of socially acceptable gendered behavior and sexual roles. Writers, such as Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, and Robert Louis Stevenson, prove that figures that breach social conceptions of a gendered binary are liminal because the boundaries that they transgress are mutable, rather than the characters themselves. These boundaries and their mutability, however, must be considered in relation to the author’s biases because the constructions of these universes are not perfect renditions of reality.

November 24, 1922 12pm.: Ever since I cut my hair I’ve never felt so free. I refuse to wear the corsets that I have been obligated to use since childhood. You cannot believe how relived I am to not have to wear those tight close fitting undergarments. So instead I have started wearing loose dresses that I feel more comfortable in. My mother always told me that men liked women with a slim waist and emphasized breast and with my new look no man will want to marry me. Of course she is livid. Not only at the fact that I cut the “beautiful long cascade of never ending long dark hair” as she says, but mostly because I’m rebelling against society’s norm. I’ve decided that it is time to take a stand for my rights and fight for my independence. I refuse to comply too these social norms. The submissive woman, restricted from freedom due to her traditional modest, accustomed, womanly gender roles. I will not be that woman. I will be the change. I’ve seen my mother, grandmother do it for years and I’ve had it. We have been repressed, and made slaves of the household generating a perspective that all we have to offer is pleasing our men and doing chores. But these social conventions will finally come to an end. Thanks too many women who have decided to be the change for today’s society. The Voting right for women has already commenced. And I can’t find the words to describe how incredibly joyful I am that now we have the right to vote. As of now we have a whole new sector of power and

This clip is from a 1999 episode of the popular show Friends. Unfortunately, it exemplifies an opinion still widely held by many today, that nursing is a career for women rather than men. Our cohort is also a reflection of this image, with only two students of 24 being men. It is easy to see that nursing is a field dominated by women. As we have learned in our module 1 readings, professional nursing has its roots in a time of war, when men were injured during battle and female nurses were the ones to care for them. Perhaps this has contributed to the image of a "feminine nurse" and a strong gender gap within the nursing profession. I am concerned that many still believe nursing is natural for women and unnatural for men, as if men are incapable

What do you know about health care? Health care a while back was typically focused on men and dismayed the needs of the woman body. When scientists would do studies they believed that the man was equally representative of the two sexes (Blumenthal and Adams). The woman's body is very complex and can not just be simmered down to a generic and generalizing study. It has been a proven fact that healthcare is far more costly for women than it is for men because studies show that women are more vulnerable to certain diseases and conditions (Blumenthal and Adams). One final thing to show the inequality of mens and womens health care is that when a womans spouse passes away or a woman gets a divorce they are much more susceptible to losing their health

Although in Western culture expectations of gender have changed, there are still gender expectations that exist within Western cultures. Women are still expected to be the caregivers, soft, and weak while Men are expected to be strong and powerful. Instead of families letting their children pick what they want to play with, “they give girls baby dolls to play with to enhance maternal and caring feelings and give boys sporting equipment which emphasizes feelings of power, aggressiveness, and leadership” (Moet 1). Children associating themselves with these activities foreshadows what their future holds for them. These early gender preparations influence the children's understanding to strongly develop that role. These traits become robotic to children and influence the ‘normal’ gender identity for a particular sex and how to behave as a male or a female. Educationally, Western culture engages in believing that boys are better at math. Western society places a heading on women that their educational values are being a wife and mother which deemphasize their intellectual abilities. Unfortunately, young women engaging in getting an education feel turned down because they fall into the trap of believing boys are better at math than girls which causes them to achieve lower math scores. The discouragement does not come from “boys are better than girls at math but because boys think they are better at math” (Davis 3). Young women are beginning to question whether they have the

What comes to your mind when you think of a nurse? Usually the image of a women in scrubs with a stethoscope around her neck is what comes to mind. Although we may not do this on purpose, it is quite normal for us to see only women unfortunately. When attending hospitals or clinics, I am often assisted by a female nurse and usually a male physician. Gender bias has largely been present within the medical field, especially when discussing nurses, physicians, or simply even medical school students.