SUMMARY
Introduction:In 1993, Annette M. Links, conducted the study on gender attitudes and stereotypes in nursing. Objectives: To describe attitudes of nursing students to stereotypes of the nurse. To evaluate the evolution of perception of gender stereotypes of nursing students. Subjects and methods: Observational, descriptive and diachronic. Structured survey was conducted 440 freshmen. At the end of third year, she passed the same questionnaire to 307 students.The data were entered into a database in Xbase format and used the program SPSS 15.0. It has been used t test. For the means for schools, ANOVA test was used. Significance level > 0.05. Results: Agreement in which women are more affectionate than men. Women are seen as more caring (P = 0.011), less independent (P = 0.000), less intelligent (P = 0.011), less leadership (P = 0.000) and less possibility of promotion (P = 0.015). The men consider sex objects young nurses (P = 0.029) and bossy older (P = 0.018).
Conclusions:The results suggest evidence of the persistence of images of nurses in accordance with female stereotypes: Gender makes a difference in the surveyed population.Key words: gender stereotypes, nursing students.
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