Re:Suicide rates are rising among U.S. nurses
by mywittyname on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @04:16PM
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They also tend to attract selfless people (usually women). And selfless people can get taken advantage of.
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Re:Suicide rates are rising among U.S. nurses
by jfengel on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @04:57PM
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Indeed, it's often called Care Work:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care_work
Care workers hold crucial jobs but are often paid much less than other professions putting forth similar effort and similar amounts of training. Often, they're told that they do it for the love of their charges (whether it's nursing, teaching, social services), and most especially the completely unpaid child care at home.
And yeah, most care work professions are associated with being "women's work".