Gender Differences in Occupational Career Assessments and Professional Identities of Nurses

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There has been a consistent increase in the number of male nurses in Japan. Male nurses who work with many female nurses have gender-specific distress. We examined the differences in occupational career assessments and professional identities of male and female nurses according to demographic factors. Our study was focused on the proportion of males to females in the occupational environment. A total of 229 male and female nurses completed the questionnaire used in the analysis. We evaluated demographic factors by t-tests and chi-squared tests, and applied Tukey’s multiple comparisons to professional identity scores and career assessment scores. Two-way ANOVA was used in evaluating the impact of the proportion of men to women in occupational environments to occupational career assessments and professional identities according to gender. The mean age of the nurse participants was about 36 years old. Fifty percent were female nurses. Occupational career assessments were higher for male nurses. Male nurses seem to prefer their nursing job as a career. Professional identity was higher for female nurses: nursing could be considered a subjective sense of awareness of “myself as a nurse” for them. There were no significant main or interaction effects of gender and the proportion of nurses in one’s own department to occupational career assessment and professional identity for nurses. As has been reported, professional identity may be highly relevant to female nurses, and occupational career assessment may be highly relevant to male nurses.

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