• A Male Nurse’s Insight into Healthcare Misogyny

    As a male nurse, I find myself in a unique position within a profession often associated with female caregivers. It’s the perspective that has opened my eyes to the nuances of gender-based treatment by doctors and patients within the healthcare industry. Simply put, I’ve noticed that my female colleagues and I aren’t always treated the same way, despite performing the same duties with equal levels of expertise and dedication. This bias against women in healthcare has been ingrained in medicine since Ancient Greece; medicine has absorbed and enforced socially constructed gender divisions at every stage in its long history” (Cleghorn, 2021). Now, this isn’t a grand revelation or a call…