PCC Gender Roles

The staff are taught all this through training, this allows the staff to be treated equal by staff regardless their race, gender, sexuality etc. In the hospital, males and females are treated equally on the wards. In the wards both genders are combined, this allows no segregation. It allows patients in the hospital to feel equal with one-another.

In many shops, there seems to be an obvious separation between boys and girls items, for example, the birthday cards, books, clothes, and toys. This is shown in a variety of ways the boy's items are mainly the color blue and the books have pictures of either action figures, superheroes or tools. Whereas the girl's items are mainly the color pink. The books show pictures of fairies, princess, and Bratz. The cards also have the theme of the color pink for girls and blue for boys. The girl's cards have a lot of sparkles and pretty pictures whereas the boy's cards are covered in camo kind of illustrations and also have action figures on the covers. The children's clothes are separated into sections where there are labels for the boy's clothes and labels for the girl's clothes. The girl's clothing is all pretty and pink, it is covered in sparkles. Whereas boys clothing has camo patterns, blue colors, and pictures of action figures.

An increase in knowledge regarding gender-related issues has led to necessary changes needed within healthcare systems. Providers are now expected to understand and deliver care that meets the specific needs of these patients, regardless of age or gender identification. This new change in culture can be extended to community care settings as well as hospitals. If a healthcare provider does not respect the values and beliefs of patients from different cultures, claims of discrimination can be made. This has the potential to result in legal action taken against the provider (Andrews & Boyle,

For centuries now, women have been bombarded with an infinite amount of conflicting and overwhelming messages about what it means to be a woman and which behaviors are considered appropriate, especially regarding sexual behavior. Traditionally, women have always been defined in relation to men. Men are seen as strong, while woman are seen as weak. Men are superior and women are their subordinates. This is exemplified by the fact that “masculine” traits such as strong, non-emotional, and competitive are considered socially desirable traits, while “feminine” traits such as docile, emotional, and passive are not. We evidently live in a society that is not only sexist, but also undoubtedly racist. The white woman typically appears as virtuous and pure, while the woman of color typically appears as unclean and tainted. If the woman of color also happens to be poor, she appears as being even more worthless. Therefore, in the United States, femininity as a concept is inextricably linked with concepts of race and class. In the present paper, I discuss the effect that this is having on women and their sexuality, the events that have paved the traveled path towards gender equality, and current issues plaguing women today, such as the attack on our reproductive rights and our value as women.

In addition, some patients may have a clear preference for a health care of provider of a specific gender due to their ethnic, religious or cultural background, because of previous experiences or in view of their age. When possible such individual needs and preferences should be taken into consideration, such as in the case of breast ultrasounds. When conducting an intimate and/or invasive examination, the male sonographer should request a chaperone to assist during the entire procedure. Chaperones should normally be members of the clinical team who are sufficiently familiar with the ultrasound examination being carried out. This is to ensure they are able to reliably judge whether the sonographer’s actions are professionally appropriate and justifiable. After asking some male sonographers if they perform breast ultrasounds, I was told that the hospital prefers female sonographers to perform this type of exams. Only in the case where there is a need for the male sonographer a chaperone needs to be present during the whole procedure. Hospitals have the responsibility to provide their employees with a chaperone. DHMC have established that the responsibility for securing chaperone services must be 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year. Yet there are no cases reported in which male sonographers have been accused of invading patient privacy or behaving unprofessionally while performing a breast

Chapter five dealt with biological sexes and gender. The chapter begins by stating that there are more than two sexes, contrary to popular belief. There are at least three sexes: male, female, and intersex individuals, who have genital ambiguity. Most of this chapter discussed the difficulties of intersex individuals’ face in the society. These individuals are often ignored or forced to live their life ashamed of their bodies. In the United States these individuals are seen as abnormality, or medical accidents, that are to be corrected through surgery. In many instances the surgeries make the individual a female by removing any male anatomy within them. This is performed since many believe that gender identity is solely developed by environmental

Thesis: Gender Roles are influenced by four theoretical perspectives: biology, socialization, social roles, social situations

The uneven field needed to be leveled with point of views or objective thoughts that were gender balanced. At the time the physicians were unable to see the benefits of a female perspective. The medical

Many females who live in the twenty first century now often take for granted of their rights and freedoms that permit them to pursue their own interests and desires. However, this starkly contrasts with how women were treated in the past due to their submissive, powerless position that prohibited them from being able to truly embrace their own identity. This is particularly illustrated with female immigrants into which constrictive gender roles created a constraint upon each person’s freedom, resulting in feelings of unhomeliness in a completely different environment. However, while some women decide to passively accept the strict boundaries that society has imposed upon them, others will rebel against this confinement and confront against

Since the advent of film and television, there has been a new medium to spread books. Some of the most paramount movies in the early twentieth century that are based on books were those belonging to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Lord of the Rings trilogy helped changed the focus on some areas of film. As explained by Gray, "Peter Jackson's Tolkien trilogy brought epic fantasy back into cinemas and the mainstream in a major way. Suddenly, Orcs were in vogue. Wizards were significantly less lame. ... Huge box-office figures meant studios had to take the D&D audience seriously and rushed to greenlight the next big thing in dragon-slaying – the resulting properties haven't always been as satisfying, but the humble dice-roller will never again

I have always had female physicians and it got me wondering if patients of female doctors are more satisfied with their medical experience than are male practitioners’ patients. This thought sparked my interest about the intersectionality of gender and the medical field. I discovered that patients of female practitioners rate their medical visits as more satisfactory, and were more compliant in following their prescriptions. Also, it seems like patients seen by women doctors improve more than those seen their male counterparts in the short term. Additionally, it appears like some of the differences in the ways female physicians and their male peers practice lead to contrariness in satisfactory ratings. Higher satisfaction is possibly attributed

This course examines complex gender issues such as women in medicine and the political issues of women’s health in Western culture, as well as the role of women as patients and a research subjects. The course highlights social perspectives of gender and examines how gender role stereotypes, cultural norms, and gender power dynamics have educated, driven and shaped medicine and medical practice. This course also reviews women’s experiences as medical professionals and how they have been influenced by and reshaped this historically masculine arena. The resources for this course include literature, modern history, movies and popular media

The Daisy foundation has found that men are recognized by patients, families and health team members two to three times the rate they are employed (Farmer 2015). It proves that men are not only capable of providing care for patients, but that they exceed the expectations people place on their nurse. As a male nursing student, this paper increased the awareness on this subject. It helps not to pay attention to the stereotypes and the gender discrimination when it comes to patients. Understanding why they chose a female patient over a male patient isn’t my concern, it’s to give cultural competent

Fausto-Sterling (2000) touched upon this discussing that it was unfamiliar territory for many physicians, so they felt as if they were making the correct choice in choosing one gender over the other. Not

If we take a look at the social structures surrounding our culture, we can see that women are vulnerable individuals. For years women have had to fight for equal pay, equal conditions, and even for the right to vote. Women not only face income and occupation disparities, but they according to Solomon, are also twice as likely to experience depression when compared to men, due to their position is society. Perhaps this can be the result of lack of power; nevertheless, the truth is that our culture has created a social system that allows the divides individuals, which allows patriarchy to flourish. Since, our society is male dominated and male centered, little attention is offered to women, and in fact it actually strips them away from their