‘Changing role in society’
The changing role of women in society was one of the biggest and most dramatic changes in nursing, said the Governor-General, Sir David Beattie, when opening
the Nurses’ Association conference in Christchurch. In the 19405, said Sir David, few nurses were married. Women of the 1980 s could be nurses, wives, and mothers all at the same time. The influence of the women’s movement, the need for extra economic support for families, and an appreciation of the intrinsic worth of work, especially nursing, had encouraged men and women to redefine role boundaries in marriage.
Now men and women shared responsibilities of being parents, and the. domestic organisation of the home was done by a twoperson team. It was unfortunate that boundaries in society had not seemed to change appreciably to men in nursing. In his opinion, said Sir David, there had not been a significant increase in numbers of men nursing, although the need for more male nurses had been seen as far back as the 1850 s. ’ 1
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