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Running head: FINAL PROJECT: GENDER AND WORK: MY LIFE STORY 1

FINAL PROJECT: GENDER AND WORK: MY LIFE STORY 2

Final Project: Gender and Work: My Life Story

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5/25/15

Final Project: Gender and Work: My Life Story

I am a registered nurse. I have been a registered nurse for two years and I’m actively pursuing my bachelor’s degree in nursing. I already obtained my associates degree in nursing through Kaplan University. Before I got into professional nursing I was a state young adult who wasn’t sure about what career path I want to be on. Shortly after completing and graduating from high school I was at a crossroads. I could join the Army and become a soldier, pursue criminal justice and become a prosecutor like I wanted to be, become a professional nurse or become a law enforcement officer. So as you can see, I had plenty of choices. At first, I chose to become a soldier which I quickly found out was no great decision in and took me a year to get out of the Armed Forces. Shortly after leaving the Armed Forces I did side jobs to pay the bills and I was tired of being placed in dead end jobs with people that I really didn’t want to be associated with. This gave me the push and determination that I needed to go and pursue a degree and so I went to nursing school.

Being that I am a female, I think that this fact helps me in my particular career field as my career field is mostly dominated by females. There are males that are nurses however the proportion to females is greatly defined as you will see more female nurses than he will ma;e nurses. I honestly cannot say that my gender was hindrance to my job if anything, it help me to become who I am as a professional nurse. I think that being a female encouraged me to work harder if anything because we’re dominated a male ruled society. I think if I was a male, I probably would have made a different career choice. I think that if I was the male, I would have strived harder and went to medical school or maybe have done some hard-core hands on job as a machinist or something like a construction worker, sad to say. Because as a male society teaches that men are supposed to be hard-working and work with her hands and get dirty. Males are the primary provider for the family. Females on the other hand, are the nurturers in the home, raise the children and care for the home and feed everybody while the males bring in the food through their hard work.

I feel that with my gender and with the career path that I’m on now, I am fit and settled and I feel that I am perfect for it. I have learned so much in the short time that I’ve been in that I wouldn’t trade it for anything. If I was a male in my current profession of nursing, I probably would feel less than, or like I should be doing something more “manly”. Unfortunately, these are some of the tags that society puts upon males and females. As we know both males and females strive to do better in life and so the attend higher education/college. What we know is that women and men had very different educational experiences. Moreover, there, and at virtually every other coeducational college, women and men are channeled into different areas of study. Men specialized in fields such as engineering, the physical and natural sciences, business, law, and medicine (Insert Reference) Women, in contrast, studied home economics, nursing, and, of course, elementary education (Insert Reference) from this, I see that maybe it was programmed and cited me to just be nurturing and so that is why I pursued the occupation of professional nursing. I have always been caring, gentle soul and I think women are programmed to be that way. The only real way that I can see gender predicting or making a difference in my education career going forward is myself allowing it to be a roadblock. We are in the year 2015, so much has changed from the 80s, 70s, 60s and previous to that that I can no longer hold an excuse for not moving forward in my life.