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Nursing is a profoundly gendered institution embedded within a patriarchal healthcare system and society.The gender binary-believing that there are only two genders that stem from only two types of anatomical bodies-is still largely taken-for-granted, unacknowledged and firmly lodged in the nursing curriculum, nursing practice and nursing policies.The gender binary is embedded in our language in the form of gendered pronouns (she/her, he/his) as well as common phrases like How to cite this article: Eliason MJ.The gender binary in nursing.
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