Gender discrimination. I got rejected today because...

I'm a male.

Called about a part time job about 20 minutes from my house that my mother had emailed me about.

The guy on the phone said I'm sorry but we are looking for a woman. It's an all female facility and the doctor is not always there to go into the rooms with the nurses, therefore, due to DHS and other rules they are only looking to hire a female nurse.

He went on to apologize, and even said, I know it's hypocritical because if I said the same thing to a woman that I'm saying to you I would be facing a lawsuit in the morning.

I told the guy that I understood and wished him luck finding someone to take the job.

But I'm a little pissed off about it because he's right. And women can work in all male facilities but men cannot work in all female facilities.

I wasn't exactly sure what type of job it was. I just knew what I heard from my mother that it was a small facility for adolescent's with drug and alcohol abuse problems.

Had I known it was an all girl facility I probably wouldn't have called. I wouldn't want to put myself in that type of situation in the first place, but damn that is discriminatory.

And I realize you hear about males all the time committing these sick acts with children and even the elderly, but the only thing I have in common with those people is that we are male. It's like saying most men are murderers therefore all men must be suspected of murder.

How about no more female school teachers teaching male boys because it seems like more and more we are hearing about women sleeping with their adolescent or teenage male students.

If I had any money I would file a lawsuit just to make a point. It's gender discrimination. It may be justified discrimination, but it's still discrimination. I don't have anything against the dude I talked to or the facility. They're just doing what they've got to do. It just irritates me that anytime something like this happens there is a lawsuit filed and someone wants PAID. That would never happen in this case.

Another thing that irritates the crap out of me, and this is getting off the subject, is that the mother always gets the children by default, if all things are equal, in a divorce. Why is that? Another case of gender discrimination.

Rant over.

Ah, geeez, Aaron! What a kick in the butt.

I hear ya about the sudden number of female teachers and male students. Perhaps we are hearing more about it because of the 'times'? Not sure, but maybe it has happened in the past. (On an off side...there was a male teacher at my HS who would 'threaten' students with failing grades if they didn't sleep with him...)

Do you need time out in the Rubber Room?

While I agree that a facility may need a female nurse for an all female institution, I am with Aaron in his rage at the hypocrisy. We are expected to be equal and sensitive so long as we are equal and sensitive in the right way for the right cause at the right time. In fact, there is no equality or sensitivity in the world. I can handle that, but I can't handle the assault on my intellect when they tell me I should believe there is.

I think you would be better off staying away from that scene, anyway. Working with troubled adolescent girls as a male will cause you nothing but trouble. I don't believe in gender discrimination but in this case I can understand why. You would have probably encountered some very manipulative, deceitful and dishonest patients at that job, be glad you won't have to deal with that.

There are so many opportunities as a male nurse you will have. The DON at the nursing home where I work is a male and patients and family members call him "Doc" all the time and seek his advice on everything. They hold him in such high esteem, and I pointed this difference out to another nurse the other day. I said, "Look how everyone flocks to Bob and calls him 'Doc,' look how they look up to him, ask for his advice...they don't do that to us..." The other nurse agreed. We both know why he enjoys the status we don't...he's a man.

There will be a lot of areas in nursing where being a male is an advantage. I'd forget this job. You'll look back later and be glad you did.

Hey Aaron, it is great to hear how you really feel, rather political correctness. However, I would not have been as nice on the phone as you were.

This gender bias against male nurses in the civilian sector will always bother me and is one of the reasons I stay in the Army Nurse Corps. In the ANC males are about 35% and rarely, if ever face gender bias.

Anyway, good luck if your still job hunting.

I agree with Capt. Barrett. I work as a contractor at a military base and I think the ratio is about 50% male/female. There is no female bias at all. One night, there was a male tech and three male nurses. I felt like I was back in 200 AD or something :)

Last Nurse Standing wrote:I agree with Capt. Barrett. I work as a contractor at a military base and I think the ratio is about 50% male/female. There is no female bias at all. One night, there was a male tech and three male nurses. I felt like I was back in 200 AD or something :)

Which military post?