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Insider Knowledge and Male Nurses: Why Men Enter Female-Dominated Occupations
Unformatted Document Text:  Insider Knowledge and Male Nurses: Why Men Enter Female-Dominated Occupations Karrie Ann Snyder Institute for Women’s Health Research Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University ## email not listed ## Abstract: This article examines why men enter female-dominated occupations by using the case study of nursing. Research on men’s entrance into atypical fields has looked at either motivational or career paths differences between men and women. I integrate these approaches by examining how men’s prior work experience influences their subsequent career decisions and motivations. I find that male nurses are more likely to have had a prior healthcare job and this exposure helps them to recast nursing from a “female-only” job to an acceptable career choice. This reorientation job experience is a way for men to overcome informal barriers of "social control" (Jacobs 1989) to entering a female-dominated occupation. Key words – work, occupational segregation, gender, healthcare

Authors: Snyder, Karrie. and Green, Adam.
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Insider Knowledge and Male Nurses:
Why Men Enter Female-Dominated Occupations
Karrie Ann Snyder
Institute for Women’s Health Research
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Abstract:
This article examines why men enter female-dominated occupations by using the case study of
nursing. Research on men’s entrance into atypical fields has looked at either motivational or career
paths differences between men and women. I integrate these approaches by examining how men’s
prior work experience influences their subsequent career decisions and motivations. I find that
male nurses are more likely to have had a prior healthcare job and this exposure helps them to
recast nursing from a “female-only” job to an acceptable career choice. This reorientation job
experience is a way for men to overcome informal barriers of "social control" (Jacobs 1989) to
entering a female-dominated occupation.
Key words – work, occupational segregation, gender, healthcare


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