Male nurses

My personal connection did not necessary affect me per say but it did alter my views stereotypical job occupations. Once when I was 12, I experienced someone asking a male nurse in a hospital “why are you a nurse? Why not a doctor? I mean, it is kind of weird being a nurse and male” The next day, I told this to one of my mom’s friends and she replied with: “we put labels on jobs because that is how it’s always been. Doctors were usually male, nurses were female and if one “goes” into the other, it’s strange” (Magda Richards). After, I went to my room and questioned why I want to be an astronomer; I ended up changing my mind to becoming a teacher. As if individuals wanting to go into medicine have to be either, if male, a doctor and if female, a nurse; “Male nurses have been viewed as “less masculine,” notes a study in the American Journal of Men’s Health in November 2011” (Kate Lunau). Not fitting the stereotypical gender that fits a job position will play with one’s dignity which will eventually make one question why they went into a profession where there is obvious occupational segregation present.