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Misogyny

Gender difference, social construct, cultural differences. Women nurses needed to leave the profession when they married. A Dr is seen as being intellectually above a nurse. Not many women could attend university due to the first point.

At one time all nurses were men as well, but as women got more and more into working in the 19th centiry, because nursing was about care, it was viewed as something a woman would be good at because of "maternalism", while a doctor was supposed to be a rational diagnostitician, and men were thought to be more rational. It was rooted in sex based views of the time period

When women were doulas (midwives who help with birth), doctors started getting jealous and pushed them out of the profession. Clay S. is right: misogyny, power, control, domination, money/greed. The usual suspects.

Ecomonic control. Doctors make more money.

All part of keeping women down. Never mind that half the brain power of humankind is being repressed.

I think it is because cultural/social construct - women are helping, nurturing, caregiver, ´filthy´job doer, it is in her ´nature´, so perfect nurse (by patriarchal society, who gives her only this ´maternal´ qualities) Men are doctors just because it gives status and power. Again - doctor in early modern society is something like ´father´, he decides about health (life or death) of the patient, it was (and somewhere still is) unthinkable position for a woman - and this is linked also in pro-life/pro-choice war. For some people woman just cannot decide about body (read:life), because it is very powerful, godly even position, which traditionaly was held by men. And they won´t give up lightly.

Male ego and hubris.

Patriarchy. It's easy for men to have all the best things when they make the rules.

The patriarchy in practice

When I was a little boy, I used to think that male medical professionals were called doctors and females were called nurses the same way grown-up people were called men and women. Mind you, I also used to think that doctors generally LIVED at the hospital. Which some... almost kinda do, I realize now, but not in the way I used to think. I also thought that they CAME FROM the hospital... ah, technically, most of them were likely born in one, so, yeah. Somehow my own Mom being a Doctor - and most likely one of the best in the world, I'm not exaggerating - didn't really clue me in :P

Obviously the penis requirement. /s

Sexism

Many early hospitals were run by convents and the nurses were the nuns (thus the tradition in many countries of calling a nurse "Sister") Women had difficulty getting into medical training for financial or societal reasons, so most doctors were men.

Just a wild guess here... Sexism??

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Patriarchy

Being a doctor (treating men) was originally a "manly" profession. Women were considered to be beneath men and unable to deal with the harder issues (amputation, death, etc.). The biggest mistake we make is when we look at history with our eyes. People had different attitudes and beliefs and we should should not judge them by our standards. A hundred or a thousand years from now we will NOT be considered "enlightened" but we WILL be judged by their standards.

sexism

Insecure men.

Don't forget most women could not read or write as well as most of the reasons given here.

Nursing has always been skewed towards women, the word being derived from wet-nurse. Nuns (and also monks) ran convent-run hospitals in Catholic Europe also solidifying the idea of a woman in a uniform who cared for the sick. By the 19th century, the UK had Florence Nightingale. She developed a nursing tradition based on the hygienic methodology she created as a field nurse during the Crimean War. Nightingale schools began to appear in the UK and abroad. She is considered the mother of modern nursing. Nightingale's American "counterpart" in some respects was Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross. She advanced the cause of women working outside the home in this noble calling. In the US, this relatively Protestant nation didn't have the same wide-spread nun-hospital tradition (although there are Catholic areas where this happened).Female-only Deaconess schools eventually became nursing schools, with the American Civil War solidified nursing as a profession. Nursing was also one of the best jobs Black women could get post-Civil War. During WWI, both rich and average civilian women then took up war-time nursing duties with the VAC, Red Cross and other organizations. I know that gender stereotypes are harmful and women can be whatever they want to be, but nursing has a proud and beautiful legacy of female leadership and empowerment. It's one of the only jobs I know where the hierarchy is almost always female from the top executive (Chief Nursing Officer) down to the newest LPN (doctors are generally not the bosses of nurses.) There are many valid avenues of care and the profession shouldn't be discredited or denigrated because it's female-dominated. It's not an inferior job, and by treating it as such we fall into that same old misogynistic trap. Healthcare needs nurses as much as it needs doctors. Many places even moreso. You can even become a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) or a Nurse Practitioner and do many of the same tasks doctors do.

For a long time even female teachers were frowned upon in America's early days.

Lots of comments here but another possible explanation was basically education. Men were prioritized for education thus women had to be assistant which evolved into nurses since nurses in the past probably were mostly labor and doing what doctors ask of em. If this patient has a fever send a messenger for me etc etc.

I'd be fascinated to learn that as well now you mention it! I could imagine it is the caring nature of mothers that prompted this, as male affeminacy has been rather suppressed, thoughout our history.

Early in the 1st century, doctors were considered bottom of the barrel people.

It's not logic

I am a man and also an ex nurse. Nothing wrong with that, because in some task stronger person is needed but in other task women is usually preferred by our patient. In my place the ratio of women and men become doctor is almost balanced. But number of women become nurse is always higher, again it is simply because patient get more comfortable for some procedure with female nurse.

Just a horrible stereotype. Men can be doctors. Women can be doctors. Men can be nurses. Women can be nurses

Nursing arose in monasteries and convents, and was more palliative than therapeutic. Physicians came out of the ancient world, seeking to “unlock” cures much as philosophers unlocked the other mysteries of science. In the dark ages, physicians (male by Greco-Roman tradition) suppressed herbal therapists by branding them as witches (plenty of misogyny going on there), and during the Plague physicians and nursing nuns formed a working bond (imposing the Patriarchal dynamic) The decline of male nursing religious orders happened at this time, for reasons a bit too much for a Bored Panda blurb. But basically, nurses nursed while doctors healed, which meant that doctors called the shots.

It was long assumed that the scientific practice of medicine required a w***y. The overwhelming majority of nurses were nuns--hence those little caps they used to wear.

These are female doctors not nurses

Victorian sexism. Women were (and are still in many ways) considered inferior, especially in skill & intellect.

It was universally decided that, because men have penis', they must be smarter! Only NOW are we seeing the flaw in said logic...

READ A BOOK BY BARBARA WOOD CALLED DOMINA. THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND.

you could pay women less

Lack of time to study long enough to be a doctor. Most women back then were also having babies and raising a family.

Nursing didn't require as much of an education, if any, and women were expected to know some basic level of nursing at home as going to the doctor wasn't always an option and they were supposed to take care of the family. While men usually received or were allowed to receive higher education and learn about medicine. This post is also misleading as precising female doctors had been a thing for centuries, these were just "officially" recognized/ modern doctors. So the title should be something like: First Female Licensed doctors in modern history

quantity. there are more women than men.

LOGIC?! What logic?! There WASN'T any! 👩‍⚕️🩺⚕️

Ask Florence Nightengale

No-one ever said it evolved logically. But I think a major element was that women couldn't fight in wars, so served as "nurses" despite lacking the university education (due to being excluded) to become "doctors." It's easy to forget what a doctor is: someone who has attained a terminal degree and has contributed independent scientific research. Medical doctors are simply the ones who have to deal with human subjects.

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Practical reality. Tough to understand isn’t it?

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All misogyny began with the story of Adam & Eve.

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Like all professions. Men did it first, moved on, so women picked up the role. Initially, only men were typists…

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Women are more naturally nurturing and sensitive, so they tend to make great nurses. Nursing takes a very special skill that many men don't have.

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because men are more intelligent.

Why do people downvote facts just because they dont *like* them?

Well, the title says "licensed Doctors"

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I wondered that. Couldn’t any of the younger people in the village have helped?

The motivation behind it was sad. He lost a loved one because they couldn't make it to the hospital in time. He dedicated his life to saving other families from the same fate. An amazing person.

It is an awesome story. Touching and heartbreaking but inspiring because of his amazing determination and perseverance.

(Removed my snarky remark.) What a treasure to his people!

REAL SAD! ☹️

I have some swamp land for sale. It’ll make a great casino. You will def get a permit after you purchase.

I thought it was all parties does s**t about global warming? (little bit /s)

True.

Or that 'conservatives' are making laws that their states won't do business with companies who ARE de-investing from fossil fuel companies. Idiots! There is NO other word.

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