Women Caregivers

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The paper discusses how based on European attitudes, it was assumed that women of color were suited to be caretakers for Euro-American women (Hassouneh-Phillips, 2003). The paper explains that nurses, because the profession is overwhelmingly female, are regarded as unskilled caregivers. The paper presents the hypothesis that nurses are being exploited because of gender, race and class and are confronted with unreasonable demands, to the extent that candidates are not being attracted to the profession.

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"This study addresses five ways in which health care reforms have impacted on women's roles as caregivers. The caregiver who was interviewed is a registered nurse who has also been heavily impacted by sexism, racism and classicism. The main issues that were investigated involved restructuring of the health care system, the nursing cutbacks and discrimination, new trends in nursing and an ideal model of care. The views that the nurse provided were then compared with the statements made by Gustafson (2000). The three interrelated themes that repeatedly emerged in this study were sexism, racism and classicism."

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