Unveiling voices and discourse: Exploring the nature of female dominated occupations through a discourse analysis of nurse’s perceptions of their work and working conditions in the context of nursing strikes in the UK of 2022-2023
(2024) WPMM43 20232Department of Political Science
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Female dominated work remains significantly disadvantaged in comparison to male dominated ocucpations statistically. What remains unclear is what this looks like in practice, how this is felt by the individuals conducting the work and what this reflects about female-dominated work. In this light this thesis explores the nature of female-dominated occuaptions through nursing to understand where this comes from.
Nurses have also been the core focal point of public attention in recent years. Representing the healthcare sector in the United Kingdom (UK), symbolic for representing altruism, while simultaneously criticised for demanding better working conditions. In light of a governmental rejection for a pay increment, the largest nursing... (More) - Female dominated work remains significantly disadvantaged in comparison to male dominated ocucpations statistically. What remains unclear is what this looks like in practice, how this is felt by the individuals conducting the work and what this reflects about female-dominated work. In this light this thesis explores the nature of female-dominated occuaptions through nursing to understand where this comes from.
Nurses have also been the core focal point of public attention in recent years. Representing the healthcare sector in the United Kingdom (UK), symbolic for representing altruism, while simultaneously criticised for demanding better working conditions. In light of a governmental rejection for a pay increment, the largest nursing trade union in the UK voted to strike for the first time. Nurses also simultaneously make up a large proportion of female workers in the UK and have always been a majority female workforce since its emergence.
This historic turn of events prompts to explore further the implications of this in terms of female-dominated work and its alignment with the experiences of real nurses. This thesis utilises a material feminist theoretical framework to explore the intricacies of female nurse’s experiences and their work using semi-structured interviews. By combining both thematic and critical discourse analysis, interview data will be analysed to discover nuanced perceptions and provide insight into the reality behind how nurses feel, conceptualise their roles and work within the broader discourse of gender. (Less)
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- author
- Blin, Justine LU
- supervisor
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- Moira Nelson LU
- organization
- course
- WPMM43 20232
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Discourse, care, nursing, feminism, gender, labour.
- language
- English
- id
- 9143778
- date added to LUP
- 2024-02-06 12:03:11
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- 2024-02-06 12:03:11
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abstract = {{Female dominated work remains significantly disadvantaged in comparison to male dominated ocucpations statistically. What remains unclear is what this looks like in practice, how this is felt by the individuals conducting the work and what this reflects about female-dominated work. In this light this thesis explores the nature of female-dominated occuaptions through nursing to understand where this comes from.
Nurses have also been the core focal point of public attention in recent years. Representing the healthcare sector in the United Kingdom (UK), symbolic for representing altruism, while simultaneously criticised for demanding better working conditions. In light of a governmental rejection for a pay increment, the largest nursing trade union in the UK voted to strike for the first time. Nurses also simultaneously make up a large proportion of female workers in the UK and have always been a majority female workforce since its emergence.
This historic turn of events prompts to explore further the implications of this in terms of female-dominated work and its alignment with the experiences of real nurses. This thesis utilises a material feminist theoretical framework to explore the intricacies of female nurse’s experiences and their work using semi-structured interviews. By combining both thematic and critical discourse analysis, interview data will be analysed to discover nuanced perceptions and provide insight into the reality behind how nurses feel, conceptualise their roles and work within the broader discourse of gender.}},
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language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Unveiling voices and discourse: Exploring the nature of female dominated occupations through a discourse analysis of nurse’s perceptions of their work and working conditions in the context of nursing strikes in the UK of 2022-2023}},
year = {{2024}},
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