Physical strength tends to be an extremely important part of being a nurse. There's no shortage of women being represented there.

As for the above: my garbage "man" is a woman, so it has nothing to do with physical strength. The truck picks up the can and has for at least 5 years in even the most Podunk town.

One of the things currently being tangled with, in nursing (because contrary to the usual assertion, the profession does worry about this) is the tendency for male nurses to get assigned to difficult patients who need restraint, and what that means for their occupational health.

It shouldn't be though, that's kind of the point. Directing people to a profession to make the representation equal is both counter-productive and IMO HURTS us as a whole because you end up with people pursuing a career they potentially hate because someone gave them a scholarship or promised them more money for doing so.

If more women than men want to be nurses, awesome, let them. If men are intentionally NOT being hired to be nurses that WANT to be nurses simply because they are men, THAT is a problem we need to fix. In the same token, if more men want to be programmers than women, awesome, let them. If companies are intentionally not hiring women for being women, FIX IT!

But PLEASE stop creating problems where they don't exist. I have no desire to take care of other people and the though of being a nurse is about the worst possible day job I could imagine. I'm willing to bet most nurses would rather stab themselves in the face than sit at a computer all day writing code too. Are we as a society really going to sit there and tell them they're wrong? They're just confused and would really love to program if they just are forced into it?

All of that is orthogonal to the actual content of the post, which is about the job quality and duties of men who choose to be nurses.

>I think your argument would be stronger if you used examples where physical strength is seldom an important factor in job-performance.

Why is there such a push for female police, soldiers, and fire fighters?

I don't want a woman trying to pull me out of a fire if she was only accepted because of lower standards.

None of those requires a lot of physical strength anymore, machines do most of the heavy lifting. Not that any of them required a level of strength unattainable by women anyway.

> teaching or nursing