by: Rey-Ryan P. Mapiles RN.
Who make better nurses, men or women? why are so many women nurses?. Such a questions arouse a good deal of passion, and answers to them are rooted in what we can discover about different abilities of man and woman.
There are two basic questions we should ask. First, are there real differences in clinical skills between men and women nurses?. Second, if there are diffenrences, what causes them?
The answers could have economic and social consequences. Saying that men and women are different by nature seems to imply their differences in performance can be taken granted. However, if we can agree that these differences result from upbringing and education, then we seem to admit that educational systems and our epectations of the two groups should be made fairer.
A lot of experiments have been performed from different hospitals all over the world in attempts to measure the abilities of male and female nurses, but interpreting the results is not easy. This is partly because human abilities are so complex that it is difficult to work out exactly what is being measured. Maybe it is also because these experiments often reach opposite conclusions, even when they are measuring the same thing.
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