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In reply to the discussion: Number of male nurses triple; average pay: $60,700/yr. Female nurse average pay: $51,100. [View all]antigone382
(3,682 posts)40. The question is why are men gravitating to those positions more than women?
Is it a question of opportunity? Is it a question of disproportionate burdens for responsibilities outside of work? If so what do we do about that?
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Number of male nurses triple; average pay: $60,700/yr. Female nurse average pay: $51,100. [View all]
SunSeeker
Feb 2013
OP
You don't need a nursing degree to move a patient; they have aids/orderlies for that.
SunSeeker
Feb 2013
#45
Are you saying women should get paid more than men because they have a uterus?
davidn3600
Feb 2013
#31
No, I am saying that we should acknowledge what a uterus does and not punish women for having one.
antigone382
Feb 2013
#34
So, pay each mother a certain amount of money every year for having and rearing a child?
OceanEcosystem
Feb 2013
#36
But the article also says that for each type of nursing, men get paid more than women.
pnwmom
Feb 2013
#26
"Each type of nursing" = 4 'types' -- nurse practitioner, anesthetist, RN, & LPN in the report.
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#59
Since the overall gap = 9%, I expect that most of it can be explained by just those kinds of
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#58
It still isn't just for women to suffer economically because we bear children.
antigone382
Feb 2013
#13
The responses to this thread were so far off the point that I had to make my own thread
antigone382
Feb 2013
#10
"even when you compare the same nursing positions (apples to apples), men make more."
redqueen
Feb 2013
#17
It's the mentality that says women don't need to make as much because they are being supported
duffyduff
Feb 2013
#25
A deeper why: why do the women take vacation and sick time, but not the men?
antigone382
Feb 2013
#41
That has little to do with it. The REAL reason is the attitude of our society and employers that
duffyduff
Feb 2013
#49
Well, having studied occupational sex segration I would say time off has a fair bit to do with it.
antigone382
Feb 2013
#53
We have a weird pay structure: the less you touch the patient, the more you get paid.
SunSeeker
Feb 2013
#54
It has not been sufficiently addressed, and pregnancy is a choice a man will never have to make.
antigone382
Feb 2013
#43
If more men are gravitating towards the more high-paying nursing professions than women,
OceanEcosystem
Feb 2013
#33
The question is why are men gravitating to those positions more than women?
antigone382
Feb 2013
#40