{"id":10150,"date":"2015-01-21T01:10:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T09:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=10150"},"modified":"2015-01-21T13:10:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T21:10:56","slug":"abilitys-muse-women-play-integral-role-in-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/01\/21\/abilitys-muse-women-play-integral-role-in-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Ability’s Muse<\/em>: Women play integral role in health care"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wondered why women are perceived as excellent caregivers? We\u2019re led to believe that our universal healthcare system adequately compensates them, but in reality a majority of the care women provide is unpaid, and in extreme situations they have given up careers to care for ailing spouses or loved ones.<\/p>\n

For patients with debilitating conditions, paid health-care workers are often providing relief to family, who in turn have stepped into the more active role of primary care.<\/p>\n

Hospital amalgamation, deinstitutionalization, and community treatment have been the popular trend in the past decade, and it has come at the cost of well-paid work and job security.<\/p>\n

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Ability\u2019s Muse<\/em> is the Camosun College Students with (dis)Abilities column (graphic provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Membership in unions has steadily declined as third-party service providers who successfully bid on contracts stretch those resources thinly to cover a larger territory.<\/p>\n

When it comes down to gender roles, it\u2019s women as opposed to men who are mostly responsible for the business of home care.<\/p>\n

In the context of globalization, we exploit other countries of their talent by bringing in foreign workers to provide health care within our beleaguered, broken system.<\/p>\n

Foreign-trained doctors and nurses fortunate enough to find entry-level positions within the industry are rewarded with pay disproportionate to their level of expertise, while we, as a result, benefit from the higher quality of care.<\/p>\n

On January 29, Amnesty International will be hosting a documentary series called Women, War and Peace<\/i> from 7 to 9 pm in Young 227 at the Lansdowne campus. All are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s celebrate, not admonish, women and the work they do as peacekeepers in providing stability around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wondered why women are perceived as excellent caregivers? We\u2019re led to believe that our universal healthcare system adequately compensates them, but in reality a majority of the care women provide is unpaid, and in extreme situations they have given up careers to care for ailing spouses or loved ones. For patients with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-january-21-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10151,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10150\/revisions\/10151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}