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Old 05-20-2018, 10:25 AM   #1110
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Originally Posted by New Era View Post
Yes, there are programs to encourage men to enroll in nursing. I posted one of the posters for one of the programs two posts above yours.

Failure to enroll is on the student, not on the system. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. If you hand an application to a man and a woman, and only the woman bothers to fill out the paperwork, is it not the man's fault for him not being accepted? Or are you suggesting that women are better at filling out paperwork and the institutions need to make is easier for men to enroll?

I'm also curious about these "challenges" men have in navigating the education system, and then what outcomes you are talking about? Can you expand on this?
Higher rates of suicide
Lower grades
Higher rates of medication
Lower post secondary enrolement

All items previously identified by other posters.

It's odd that you think failure to enroll is on the MALE student only. Why do you believe that we are handing both the Male and Felamle student with the same level of encouragement and preparedness. You are making a false equality of opportunity argument without accounting for underlying factors that limit or enhance the opportunity. It is just as foolish to believe that the differing post secondary enrolement between men and women is a choice as it is to believe that the lost employment opportunities driven by child rearing bring disproportionately born by women is a choice.

Structural factors in our society which create these differences in opportunity need to be reviewed and addressed.

As for the nurse add it's the exception that proves the rule and the reaction to it is entertaining. Compare it to the encouraging enrolement in engineering programs that have done on for about 40 years at least in Canada. These programs being led by the professional associations and universities.

Last edited by GGG; 05-20-2018 at 10:29 AM.
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