Male Diversity Research Paper

Kelvin Blade

Ms. Marsh

English IV

03 January 2015

Limits to Male Diversity? New Oxford American Dictionary states that diversity is a range of different things. In today’s society, the role of a man is viewed as a set of attitudes, behaviors, and self-presentation methods ascribed to members of a certain biological sex, according to the Psychology of Men. This leads me to putting the two together. Male diversity? What is it? Something that is very controversial to many. Putting the two together brings a new form of ‘being a male’. Before this compound phrase there was only one meaning of being a male, and that limited the things you could do. Today, things such as cheerleading, ballet dancing, nursing, design, wearing make-up, and lots more

(see all nurses.com) The world’s first nursing school, founded in India, about 250 B.C. only men were considered ‘pure enough’ to withhold a job such as nursing. Now that is not possible, due to women’s rights being equal to men. Later, about 70 years after the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, Friar Jan de Mena was shipwreck just south of what would later be annexed to become Texas. Jan de Mena would later be identified as the first nurse in the North American continent.

Fast forwarding years later, during the civil war men all nurses were males. Women were indeed caretakers then, but to perform a job like nursing, as a woman then was nearly impossible. Post civil war males continued to dominate the position even though the number of men declined after the war. Although this was true, during the 20th century, the job as said to become ‘feminized’ and more and more women poured in from this

Ironically, with the founding of the Army Nurse Corps in 1901 men were excluded by law from such service. It was not until 9 AUG 1955, when President Eisenhower signed into law H.R. 2559, that Male RNs were authorized reserve commissions in the ANC. In 1961, Ohio Representative Frances Payne Bolton introduced a bill to Congress to authorize regular commissions for Male RNs. Leroy N. Craig, superintendent of the Pennsylvania Hospital men's nursing school, fought for the rights of men to participate in the American Nurses Association. Nurse Luther Christman volunteered to serve on the front, if he could serve as a nurse. The U.S. Surgeon General turned down Christman for combat duty as a nurse. You might be surprised to learn that at its inception in the mid-1800’s cheerleading was an all-male sport. Characterized by gymnastics, stunts, and crowd leadership, cheerleading was considered equivalent in prestige to an American flagship of masculinity, football. As the editors of Nation saw it in