Explaining Men's Entry into Female‐Concentrated Occupations: Issues of Masculinity and Social Class

Lupton, Ben

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0432.2006.00299.x

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“…Ray may have conceptualized work as a means of gender expression (David & Brannon, 1976;Monaghan, 2002) or affirmation; the lack of male colleagues may have served as evidence that he was violating gender norms, which may have generated or increased gender role strain (Pleck, 1981) and resulted in emotional distance from his work and diminished desire to excel. Similarly, Lupton (2006) found that men working in nontraditional occupations expressed concern with maintaining their sense of masculinity. Although Neil may have also believed that gender expression was a function of his work, his focus was on using work to express alternate gender expressions.…”

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Masculinity in Nontraditional Occupations: Ecological Constructions

2009

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The authors present Bronfenbrenner's ecological model as a conceptual framework to explore interlocking systemic and interpersonal influences on the development and perpetuation of men's gender role-related distress. To demonstrate the utility of this model, the authors present results from an exploratory qualitative study of men in nontraditional occupations. Using the constant comparison method, the authors' analysis of multiple interviews with elementary educators and medical support staff unearthed interwoven themes among the effects of cultural notions of masculinity on relationships, job tasks, and perceptions of themselves as men. Expectations about men (e.g., that men confront danger, remain calm in chaotic situations, and/or are predators) affected hiring decisions and interactions with colleagues, limited the scope of the men's work, and provided opportunities to reinforce traditional notions of masculinity and affirm the value of masculinity in their occupations. These different experiences all interacted to inform participants' senses of themselves as men.

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Masculinity in Nontraditional Occupations: Ecological Constructions

2009

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“…To investigate men's gendered identity work in feminized occupations, and in keeping with a body of work that explores the marginal roles and identities of men in non-traditional work contexts (Lupton 2000(Lupton , 2006Heikes 1992;Author, 2004; Williams 1993), we concern ourselves with how 'being Other' is managed by the practices of doing masculinity. This contrasts with research that has concentrated on male dominance as a source of privilege and power (Collinson & Hearn 1994;Connell 1995;Kerfoot & Knights 1993, 1998 while at the same time disrupts the common reading of women as Other.…”

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Managing difference in feminized work: Men, otherness and social practice

2009

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The paper presents a qualitative study of men who do traditionally female dominated and feminized work (specifically nursing and primary school teaching). Men are often seen as not only a minority to women in these contexts, but also their Other. The paper explores the processes of doing gender as a social and discursive practice, highlighting the necessity to manage difference and the processual, emergent, dynamic, partial, and fragmented nature of gendered identities. We show some of the complex ways in which men manage difference and how they transcend Otherness by doing masculinity and appropriating femininity so that masculinity is partially subverted and partly maintained. This analysis not only relies on the doing of gender through the doing of difference but also surfaces the undoing of gender and difference to disrupt gender norms and practices in work organizations.

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“…This gender stereotype of men as sexual aggressors is reported in other studies (Evans, 2002;Harding, 2008;O'Lynn, 2007 issue of masculinity and gender. This alternative approach has been adopted by Lupton (2006) in explaining men's entry into female-concentrated occupations in the UK.…”

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The impact of gender, culture, and sexuality on Mauritian nursing: Nursing as a non-gendered occupational identity or masculine field? Qualitative study

Hollup

2014

International Journal of Nursing Studies

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BackgroundInternational studies have generally defined nursing as a female-dominated occupation. The almost absence of male nurses seems universal, except as a privileged minority occupying positions within nursing specialties ('islands of masculinity'). Nursing is associated with relatively low status owing to gender and income, and is also influenced by cultural perceptions of social status, the nature of the work and sexuality. ObjectiveThis study aims to describe and analyse how gender and cultural perceptions influenced the development of nursing in Mauritius. This paper examines why nursing in Mauritius became gendered in different ways due to the impact of gender equivalence in the work force, the gendered segregation in clinical practice and the absence of caring feminization in nursing. Design and settingThis qualitative study is based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews and convenience sampling. The sample includes nurses working at five hospitals. They all come from the central and southern part of Mauritius. The data were collected over a five-month period during 2006. ResultsNursing practice is gender segregated, influenced and supported by cultural traditions and perceptions of gender relations, sexuality and touch in nursing. However, the professional identity and role is considered non-gendered, implied by the title of 'nursing officer' and the presence of male nurses who constitute almost 50 % of the work force. Male nurses do not face similar barriers deterring them from entering nursing profession. Nursing did not develop the image of women's work and a low status job in Mauritius. ConclusionsThe nursing profession in Mauritius has been shaped by a different 'history of origin', social, cultural and societal conditions on the basis of the absence of gender imbalance in the work force and caring feminization in nursing. Moreover, the increase of men's presence in nursing influenced its name, status and perception, shifting nursing into a masculine sphere with advantageous impacts on nursing.

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Explaining Men's Entry into Female‐Concentrated Occupations: Issues of Masculinity and Social Class

Cited by 158 publications

References 53 publications

Masculinity in Nontraditional Occupations: Ecological Constructions

Masculinity in Nontraditional Occupations: Ecological Constructions

Managing difference in feminized work: Men, otherness and social practice

The impact of gender, culture, and sexuality on Mauritian nursing: Nursing as a non-gendered occupational identity or masculine field? Qualitative study

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