Gender and Empowerment by Nursing Students: Representations, Discourses and Perspectives
Isabela Nogueira1, Gabriela Spagnol1, Fernanda Rocha1
1Faculty of Nursing, The State University of Campinas, São Paulo 13083-970, Brazil.
Summary
Nursing students experience gender, race, and class stigmas, impacting professional identity. An intersectional, feminist approach is crucial for nursing empowerment and challenging historical stereotypes.
Area of Science:
- Social Sciences
- Nursing Studies
- Gender Studies
Background:
- Nursing historically faces stigmas related to gender, race, and class.
- Contemporary challenges include professional disqualification and male supremacy in healthcare.
- An intersectional approach offers potential for paradigm shift in nursing.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore how nursing students experience gender, feminism, and empowerment.
- To understand the influence of historical and social factors on nursing students' perspectives.
- To identify pathways toward professional empowerment within a feminist framework.
Main Methods:
- Qualitative, exploratory-explanatory study.
- Interviews conducted with nursing students across five years of training.
- Discourse of the Collective Subject analysis applied to interview data.
Main Results:
- Students perceive the nursing profession as historically feminized and stigmatized.
- Nursing education perpetuates gender stereotypes, distancing it from gender relations.
- Empowerment is linked to embracing feminism and an intersectional perspective.
Conclusions:
- Nursing students' experiences reflect historical oppression impacting their training.
- There is a need for critical gender awareness education in nursing curricula.
- Feminist and intersectional approaches are vital for nursing professional empowerment.
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