For those women ranting about Income inequality… Answer us this question… 🤔🤔
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In my case, back in the early 70's, the male orderlies were paid more than the female nurses aides. I worked in a catholic hospital in NYC, St Clares. I asked the head nurse, who was a nun, why that was. She told me that men had to support a family. I argued that was not fair, because the male orderlies did not have to tend to both sexes of patients, while I had to. As far as lifting heavy patients, there were so few orderlies, us girls had to team together to do it anyway. I have the bad back to prove it. So, in the case of patient care, it is much different than professional sports, where the big money is in mens sports, or in construction and like minded labor. The healthcare business has changed, and now all aides are paid equally.
"Us girls had to team together"
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.... so you wanted equal pay for a job it took two of you to do, that a lone man did? (asking for a friend)
While us girls were washing, feeding, changing beds, of both the men and the women patients, the orderlies were assigned only some of the men, but of course, no women patients, they often sat at the nurses station until they were called to help somewhere else. The workload was over all, less on them. You come on duty and get handed a list of rooms and patients that are your responsibility for your shift, there was no housekeeping back then, the aides did all personal care and bed changes. The two guys were given a list of only a few men that they thought the gals could not handle. So overall, my list would be 5-7 people, both sexes, the orderlies had 3-4.seems it worked out even regarding work, plus the female staff did more grooming for the patients, if they wanted some make up on or their nails done, we also were given the old men who had accidents in their beds, there was one orderly who got away with not dealing with it because the poor thing would gag if he had to clean poop.
Jokes. Jokes. Jokes.