[Half a century history of nurses and working women]

Half a century of history of nurses and working women. A historian's perspective of a professional group considers firstly the context, to understand what distinguishes it from other groups. The remarkable aspect of the history of nurses over the last half century is that they are predominantly women. It is therefore interesting to determine if the evolution of this profession and its practitioners, as noted in research, has any correlation with the history of the country's female population in general.