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Macro and Micro-Level Issues Surrounding Women in the Workforce: Emerging Research and Opportunities
The process of looking back the events and interactions so that new actions can be taken in the sense-making process.
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End of Occupational Segregation in the Nursing Profession: What Has Changed for Female Nurses?
Selcen Kılıçaslan-Gökoğlu (Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey) and Engin Bağış Öztürk (Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9163-4.ch011
Abstract
This chapter focuses on how female nurses make sense of their occupations as the perception of their profession changes from gender-biased to gender-neutral. Nursing is one of those rare professions with occupational segregation in favor of females, but one that is changing as more males enter the profession. While there are many occupational segregation studies to explain male and female nurses' perspectives, research on how female nurses reconsider their views about the profession is scarce. Therefore, this chapter will address this change for females by utilizing a conceptual analysis, specifically the cognitive sense-making perspective. Referring to the phases of the cognitive sense-making (ecological change, enactment, selection, and retention), this chapter examines how the meaning of the nursing profession and the meaning of work in general is changing for females.
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