Gender Biases In The Nursing Profession

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You discussed great points on gender barriers. I totally agree with you that gender biases are harmful to the nursing profession and create a cycle that limits the role of males in nursing. So what can we, as a profession, do to address this barrier of men joining the nursing profession? One of the solutions is for the nursing schools to strengthen their efforts to attract more male students into the program. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing AACN (2015) indicates that, a lack of diversity in the educational pipeline correlates to a lack of diversity in the nursing workforce. In addition, consistently to the lack of student diversity, is ununiformed nursing school faculty and deans that comprise of a gender-skewed homogenous group.