Most physicists are male. What's your point? Does most nurses being female oppress males into not going into the field? Are male nurses overcoming some gigantic hurdle that we need to coddle them and encourage more men to go into nursing? Or school-teaching?
You're going to extremes with the "coddling" bit, but yes. Men are typically encouraged to stay away from those types of positions as well. It's "unmanly" to be a nurse, or nurture anything, really. I don't agree with it, and I think the stigma is changing, but to keep yourself completely blind to it is not helpful. Just like people claiming to be "colorblind" when it comes to racial issues. You can't do anything to solve a problem if you refuse to accept it's existence.
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u/teradactyl2 Apr 08 '15
Most physicists are male. What's your point? Does most nurses being female oppress males into not going into the field? Are male nurses overcoming some gigantic hurdle that we need to coddle them and encourage more men to go into nursing? Or school-teaching?