Helping women break through the glass ceiling
Harjinder Aujla A deputy ward manager, Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Partnership Trust
Harjinder Aujla asks if female nurses are given sufficient opportunities to undertake post-registration education and training programmes
IN THE 1980s, a Department of Health (DH) nurse recruitment poster showed a picture of a schoolgirl in a nurse’s uniform with the words: ‘The best nurses have the essential qualifications before they go to school’ (Innes 1995). The image and the text together perpetuated a sexual stereotype, that the ideal nurse is a woman, and that the idea that nursing is an innate predisposition rather than a career requiring specific skills and education.
Nursing Management.
15, 10, 12-13.
doi: 10.7748/nm.15.10.12.s16
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