[jfengel]

Because capitalism:

Over the past 12 months, health care alone added 390,000 jobs, more than in the economy overall, making up for job losses elsewhere.

Health care is what the market demands, so that's where the jobs get created. If those are framed as women's work, then women will get trained for them and women will get the jobs.

TFA doesn't break down how much of that is nursing and how much is administrative. Both are coded as "women's work", for different reasons.

Even aside from the employment benefits, it would be very helpful to stop thinking that men are doctors and women are nurses. But I've also never seen a male receptionist at a doctor's office.