Author Interviews, Gender Differences / 22.08.2018
Why Are There So Few Male Nurses and Kindergarten Teachers?
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Katharina Block, M.A.
Phd Student - Social Psychology
The University of British Columbia
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?
Response: Healthcare workers and teachers are incredibly central to how we function as a society. We are having trouble filling these positions, and especially men are underrepresented in them.
In the U.S. men represent only about 10% of nurses and 4% of pre-school and kindergarten teachers. We wanted to know how men’s more basic values play into this.
Our main finding is that tend men see less importance in care-oriented careers then women do, and we find that this could be tied to the more basic values feel are important to them personally. (more…)
Katharina Block, M.A.
Phd Student - Social Psychology
The University of British Columbia
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?
Response: Healthcare workers and teachers are incredibly central to how we function as a society. We are having trouble filling these positions, and especially men are underrepresented in them.
In the U.S. men represent only about 10% of nurses and 4% of pre-school and kindergarten teachers. We wanted to know how men’s more basic values play into this.
Our main finding is that tend men see less importance in care-oriented careers then women do, and we find that this could be tied to the more basic values feel are important to them personally. (more…)