Cultura de los Cuidados (Jun 2012)
Profile of the men formed (trained) in the Nursing School of University of São Paulo (1950-1990)
Abstract
Several authors point out that the male presence in nursing has been significant at certain times and historical contexts, or they were driven by religious piety and charity, or were taken by military obedience to superior orders or requirements of war. Because of this, we highlight the importance of studies on gender in nursing, how to identify and analyze what men were graduates of the School of Nursing at USP, in the period 1950 to 1990. As material and method, it is notable that the data was collected after obtaining the opinion of the Ethics in Research of EEUSP, being used for this purpose, an instrument previously developed and information was obtained through the formulary of graduated students at the Service of Graduation of EEUSP, enabling thus raising socio-demographic data on the target population of the study, with respect to nationality, ethnicity, religion, marital status, considering also proportionality between men and women graduated from that school. The parents of graduated students were identified with data on educational level and profession. The study provided a better understanding of the profile of the population and revealed a great disproportion in the gender issue in nursing, because the majority of the graduates of this school are women, which is part of the phenomenon of the feminization of nursing, from the consolidation the paradigm of modern nursing.
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