Abstract

MOSQUEDA-DIAZ, Angélica; PARAVIC-KLIJN, Tatiana  and  VALENZUELA-SUAZO, Sandra. Gender division of labor and nursing. Index Enferm [online]. 2013, vol.22, n.1-2, pp.70-74. ISSN 1699-5988.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S1132-12962013000100015.

Gender division of labor generates that men and women distribute tasks and join workforce in differentiated ways. Provided that nursing is practiced mostly by women, an analysis is performed about the impact that work division by gender has had on nursing. Reproductive and productive analysis is characterized and segregation by women through arguments given by economical and gender perspective is analyzed. Among some conclusions, nursing undervaluation is a consequence from down-grading of female labor and social care because of deeply-rooted gender prejudice. Situations which have started to revert, women have achieved to make visible certain disadvantaged conditions in which they practice their occupation, and nursing has been strengthened as a professional discipline showing social and scientific validity.

Keywords : Women Working; Nursing Care; Nursing and Gender; Gender division of labor.