Women and care: a natural relation history?

Abstract

The present study originates in a study presented by some other teachers of our own school, in 1995, about the historic evolution of relationship nursing versus gender. This study shows why nursing tasks have been seen as something innate and natural in women and have always been interpreted as a "secondary role tasks". That link between women and care has been historically interpreted as something natural never discussed. The origins of that sort of link run parallel to the self-evolution of nursing and could be understood by means of analysing the systems of social relationship established between nature/culture, domestic environments and public environments, and productive and non-productive jobs... The purpose of this paper lies in the convenience of an up-to-date analysis about functional relationships established between gender and nursing that allow to deepen into the nature of sociocultural influence over a professional development, in order to enlighten the question of why has nursing historically been considered a "secondary role" profession.

Keywords

• Enfermería
• Género
• Influencia socio-cultural
• Sistemas de relaciones