Open AccessResearching Gender Professions: Nurses as Professionals
Author(s) -
Benjamín Zufiaurre,
Maider Pérez de Villarreal
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of curriculum and teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1927-2685
pISSN - 1927-2677
DOI - 10.5430/jct.v7n1p197
Subject(s) - constructive , face (sociological concept) , health professions , work (physics) , social work , welfare , nursing , health professionals , social welfare , state (computer science) , psychology , medical education , sociology , political science , medicine , health care , social science , law , mechanical engineering , process (computing) , algorithm , computer science , engineering , operating system
Nurses as professionals of health, childhood education teachers, social workers and caregivers, join a group of“feminine professions” which grew through policies of a welfare state in postwar constructive period, or in times ofpostwar accords (Jones, 1983). These professions are under challenge because of neoliberal policies and practices inthe 21st century. In the paper, we want to give lights to the contradictory situations nurses face, as workers and ascare keepers. Nurses, suffer of a combination of public and private functions, at work, at home, and when caringfamily relatives. The way women feel about their role as professionals, and as women and workers, is illuminative,as we enquired in a funded research developed with nurses in the community of Navarra, Spain, first from 1993 to1996, and next, checking a continuity each ten years, 2006 and next 2016.