Women who wanted to train as nurses during the Second Spanish Republic received specific training in line with that of European nurses, but different from men, according to the analysis of the thesis presented by José Antonio Vera Perez at the University of Murcia.
The study, which has obtained excellent cum laude, recognizes the scientific dimension, medical, technical and moral instruction took nurse women during this period and equal efforts of the governments of the Second Republic.
However, he argues, was more important in nursing education deep historical structures equality policies, which led to the retention of the traditional educational disparities between men and women.
The review that the author has made manuals, training programs, conferences and reports used during the years 1931 to 1936 resulting in a formation characterized by a fundamentally practical learning and a few auxiliary functions of nurses.
Among those tested, there are texts of Luis Valenciano Gaya, Cenzano Felipe Sáenz, Maria Teresa Junquera and Manuel Usandizaga, among others.
The dissertation was directed by Professors Jane and Paloma Hernandez Conesa Moral de Calatrava.
Source: Universidad de Murcia