Roots of Oppression
Consequences
Theories/Concepts/Principles
Resources & Strategies
Implications
100

This individual creating nursing into a respectable profession, but is responsible for the marginalization of men in nursing. 

Who is Florence Nightingale? 

100

This is a health consequence of gender inequality.  

What is Nurses are the Sickest Workers? 

100

The result of individuals feeling oppressed, limiting their responsibility and independence in their workplace.

What is Reduced Job Satisfaction and Self-Esteem?

100

The group that aims to change the way nurses are viewed by the public by getting involved in their community and altering the nursing pathway. 

What is the Men in Nursing Interest Group? 

100

How male nurses are often recognized by their female colleagues. 

What is the 'Muscle'? 
200

This decade represents the time when men in nursing could join the US army and the Canadian Forces. 

When was the 1960s? 

200

Areas in nursing that male nurses funnel to that reinforce masculine virtues. 

What is Emergency Care Nursing, Intensive Care Nursing, and Psychiatric Nursing? 

200

This results from treating male nurses as equals within the healthcare system. 

What is Justice? 

200

The nursing organization that is known to fight for pay equity between male and female nurses. 

What is the Ontario Nurses Association? 

200

Positions often lead by men in the nursing profession. 

What is Administrative Nursing? 

300

Barriers that prevent women from ascending to higher levels within the nursing profession.

What is the Glass Ceiling? 

300

This situation leads to increased job strain, workload, and physical demands for the nurses who are present for their shift, and is a result of gender inequality.

What is Understaffing? 

300

The result of gender oppression in the workforce. 

What is lack of autonomy? 

300

This strategy will promote empowerment in the nursing profession. 

What is Political Participation? 

300

The result of female patients refusing care from male nursing students. 

What is Unequal Educational Opportunities? 
400

This area negatively portrays male nurses in ways that reinforce historical and societal stereotypes of homosexuality and weakness. 

What is the Media? 

400

The areas of nursing that are limited to men because they embody feminine characteristics. 

What is Pediatrics and Women's Health? 

400

This theory was developed through resistance movements striving for social justice and equity.

What is the Critical Social Theory? 

400

The strategy that will help to reduce the gender stereotypes currently present in the media.

What is the appropriate portrayal of male nurses in the media? 

400

The result of men being asked to do laborious tasks due to their perceived strength and masculine knowledge base.

What is Constant Interruptions and Increased Workload? 

500

This model enforces the ‘Victorian’ family ideal, in which men are the ‘head’ of the house and women as passive, weak, and reliant on male direction.

What is the Medical Model? 

500

The result of low political status of nursing and the gender stereotypes reinforced by the media. 

What is Lack of Recruitment and Retention of Males in Nursing? 

500

This theory can assist in creating an equally represented and respected health care team.

What is the Feminist Theory? 

500

The strategy that will increase the attraction of the nursing profession to young men. 

What is More Male Nurse Role Models? 

500

The result of more men holding roles of higher power than females.

What is Women's Lack of Opportunity for Promotion and Decreased Wage?