Women Speak Drastically Less When They’re Surrounded by Dudes. And That’s Bad.

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5. You know it's funny

When discussing careers for women, nursing, since it's a traditional women's 'role', is often used as a way of showing how far we haven't come in equalizing the job market. Teachers as well. What isn't as well known is how far nursing itself has developed and grown. I would hazard a guess that it's grown professional precisely because we are predominantly female. We do speak up. In fact, we raise hell when we need to.
Is this growth in influence and power because women are less constrained by the presence of men? There are plenty of men in nursing. Plenty of men in health care, but they are not predominant, as in any other profession where some good 'ol boy system is in place.

But there are Words for assertive women, we know what they are. Those words and that attitude as well as the negative self talk, that's hard to overcome, like the institutionalized sexism it springs from