Women and social change. A research project
Section: TEACHING TO LEARN
Authors
1Mª Pilar Montesó Curto, 2Antonio Ferruz Gasca, 2Trinidad Ginovart Alqueza, 2Manuel Martínez Membrado, 2Francesc Gallart Companys
Position
1Enfermera y socióloga.1Enfermero/a de Atención Primaria de Salud, ICS, ABS Tortosa-Oest, Terres de l´Ebre.
Contact email: pmonteso.ebre.ics@gencat.cat
Abstract
The nursing profession, as many other professions, has been primarily associated with women, and hence poorly valued at social level. Nonetheless, in the last 25 years and mainly after it reached university level, nursing professionals have fought to play an active role, the role they had been trained to perform, not as supervised and more autonomous.
Is this progress as real in women as it is in female nurses in today’s society? How does it affect mental health?
The history of the nursing profession in Western civilisations runs parallel with women’s history. The same factors that have influenced the development of the nursing career have also marked the destiny of women; the same values conferred to women have been conferred to the nursing career, and the profession has been attributed with the same characteristics society regarded as “feminine”.
Keywords:
women; nursing; social change of women’s role; evolution; progresspatriarchship
Versión en Español
Título:
Mujeres y Enfermería cambio social. Proyecto de investigación
