Male Nurses are more masculine?

Do you view nurses as feminine and less masculine? Not to worry if you do, as that is the universally accepted view. I came across a pretty interesting article about male nurses while researching for another class. It might be really surprising then to find out that male nurses are actually the ones who display more of the typical masculine traits than other occupations. Studies have shown that males who are in the nursing profession actually are the ones who hold masculinity to a very high degree. It is then very unfortunate that society see nurses as a "feminine" occupation due to the amount of care and "soft" things that nurses have to do at their jobs. This has caused many males who are interesting in nursing to shy away from pursuing it as a career due to society's misguided view of the job. Tension and anxiety issues that emerge from it also adds to the discouragement of males who do not want to be seen as "feminine".

The "soft" things I had mentioned before is the apparently affectionate and gentle nature of the occupation which more often than not is associated with a female. Males are seen to be more aggressive and society expects men to be of an aggressive nature in order to feel more "masculine". That should not be the case as people are born very differently from one another, and to expect the same "masculine" side of every male to be aggressive is simply impossible. Masculinity and femininity as just stereotypes of the different genders, it should never be applied to the entire group and we know that stereotypes are never always true.