In the article Male Nursing stereotypes and discrimination written by Lisette Hi lton, she summed up with different discrimination

and gender-based situation and how did male nurses manage not to affect their competency in the nursing field through different experiences of male nurses, supervisors, clinical instructors and student themselves. The perception that men are stymied in nursing today is o verblown, said Vern Bullough, Ph.D., RN, adjunct professor of nursing at the Uni versity of Southern California in Los Angeles, and a distinguished professor eme ritus at State University of New York."Some hospitals, for a while, tried to kee p men out of ob/gyn floors and womens health wards. But generally, that has not h appened in recent years. There is still some difficulty for men to become nursemidwives, but even that has broken down," Bullough said. "Some women deliberatel y discriminate against male nurses, but this is a small minority of people. Ive h ad tremendous support from female nurses," said Bullough, a recipient of the Ame rican Assembly for Men in Nursings (AAMN) Distinguished Nurse award, who has been a nurse, educator and author of more than 100 books and articles about nursing. The men who go into nursing have to realize that its a profession dominated by w omen, so if they dont get along with women well, its not a good profession for the m. A lot of men in the past have not been able to deal with situations in which women are supervisors over them," Bullough said."The thing to focus on in men an d in nursing is that men and women are both nurses. There is not much basic diff erence between them. Men are sometimes stronger than women, and in the past they often got stuck with turning patients more. I think all you do is treat both me n and women equally. A suggestion was made by Miller, that male nurses can over come negative perceptions by addressing them. By encountering gender-based reser vations and winning patients and nurses confidence despite their initial unease, y ou win friends for life, he said."Thats happened to me a few times and what a joy that is for both of us. It has been a wonderful career; it still is. The more i mportant thing is nursing itself; Ive never been bored as a nurse. Ive always had mobility. Ive always had lots of opportunities. Ive never been burned out because I wasnt learning. I dont know that many professions have all the dimensions of nur sing," he said. In the book of Current Issues in Nursing, written by Cowen and Moorehead (2006), though we are in the age of growing gender equality, women still dominate in nu rsing, and this is more due to historical circumstances than any other factor. W orth noting is that in nursing, male are facing many obstacle that women in the past had to face when they tried to be physicians, accountants, scientist, manag ers, professors, college administrators or even professional athletes. Undoubted ly, there are still barriers for women in many areas but they are well on the wa ys to be overcome and the same holds through for men in nursing. Part of the dif ficulty is simply that the history and image of nursing since Florence Nightinga le has been a feminine one. And the girly-man in Arnold Schwarzeneggers terms is st ill a putdown of men willing to challenge past stereotypes. As gender stereotype s change, the labeling decreases. From a male point of view, there is nothing inherently wrong with emphas izing caring because caring obviously is one of the basic fundamentals of nursin g. The problem, however, is the way some theorist implemented it. One faction of nursing of which Chin is representative feels that caring is a unique feminine quality. In Chins words (2001), nursing and feminism, regardless of the definitio ns of either concept, are inescapably connected. By implication, caring was some thing that men were not especially qualified to do. This essential necessity of nurses on which so depends on what she calls the feminine values, will be change if male nurses grow in numbers. These gender issue in the nursing field is said to be influence by the s ocialization process wherein women traditionally unlike men have not been social ized to pursue career interests as their primary objectives. This male objective is embedded in their socialization, while giving has been embedded in the female socialization process. It is this difference in the female-male socialization pr ocess which contributes towards women and women-dominated occupations experienci ng difficulties in reaching the top echelons of the male-oriented organizational worlds. (The multifaced influence of gender in career progress in nursing)

Local Studies In the study conducted by et al. results shows that all of the respondents, male and female easily established rapport with the client and does not experien ce embarrassment, in terms of utilization of nursing process both of the experie nced difficulty and rejection. With regard to clinical instructors and other sup port system, while most of the clinical instructors were aware of the possible p roblems with the client, they were not able to set more models for respondents t o look up to. Only for sometimes that clinical instructors helped to deal with g ender related problems. The physician and staff also expressed preference for fe male student nurse.