See here for
essential background: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2025/05/women-hps-uniform.html.
My endless laments about the loss of hospital portering traditions, and especially my tirade in the above article about HP women's uniforms, is not confined to HPing. It appears the same thing has affected the civilian professions. This change happened even earlier than the HP one. I just about remember the time when male nurses wore tunics. There have always been men in nursing, but they were very much a small minority until the establishment of the NHS. Today I would not go as far as to say the gender imbalance is the reverse of HPing; men are still a minority, but they are a larger minority, about twenty to thirty percent. Above you see two male nurses' uniforms, one from the 1960's and one from the present day. You can quite clearly see the difference, especially when you also compare the women's uniforms of the past with knee-length blue and white dresses, bonnets and pinafores, for example see: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2024/12/devotion.html. I could show you a similar comparison involving radiographers, dentists and physiotherapists. Clearly men and women were made to look distinct from each other, even when doing the same job. Modern civilian uniforms in the NHS, like the portering ones, are virtually unisex. The tunic has been replaced with the very androgynous short Cuban top. The women's is slightly longer, but apart from that they are identical. The reasons why male and female staff are being made to look more and more like each other is a subject I cover extensively in other HPANWO projects, see the link below.
See here for more background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/political-correctness-portal.html.
My endless laments about the loss of hospital portering traditions, and especially my tirade in the above article about HP women's uniforms, is not confined to HPing. It appears the same thing has affected the civilian professions. This change happened even earlier than the HP one. I just about remember the time when male nurses wore tunics. There have always been men in nursing, but they were very much a small minority until the establishment of the NHS. Today I would not go as far as to say the gender imbalance is the reverse of HPing; men are still a minority, but they are a larger minority, about twenty to thirty percent. Above you see two male nurses' uniforms, one from the 1960's and one from the present day. You can quite clearly see the difference, especially when you also compare the women's uniforms of the past with knee-length blue and white dresses, bonnets and pinafores, for example see: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2024/12/devotion.html. I could show you a similar comparison involving radiographers, dentists and physiotherapists. Clearly men and women were made to look distinct from each other, even when doing the same job. Modern civilian uniforms in the NHS, like the portering ones, are virtually unisex. The tunic has been replaced with the very androgynous short Cuban top. The women's is slightly longer, but apart from that they are identical. The reasons why male and female staff are being made to look more and more like each other is a subject I cover extensively in other HPANWO projects, see the link below.
See here for more background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/political-correctness-portal.html.
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