Gender Justice
Registered nurses know that gender justice is fundamental to our ability to effectively advocate for patients, demand safe workplaces, and build healthy unions. Social well-being depends on care work that has historically been performed by women and gender-oppressed people. Nurses’ fight for gender justice is a fight for equity of opportunity, conditions, safety, collectivity, health, and dignity for all people regardless of gender. Read more ».
International Working Women’s Day honors a union on strike
International Women’s Day is important. But to truly honor this day and its goals, we must revisit the story of International Working Women’s Day, of thousands of fed-up workers boiling over into the streets of New York. We need days like this to remind ourselves to celebrate what we’ve accomplished and still make an honest assessment of what oppresses us.
LGBTQI+ health equity booklet
Learn about gender terms, health disparities and health determinants in sexual and gender minorities, and more.
Videos
With the help of her union, Dara is fighting for gender-affirming care at her facility
National Nurses United is proud to share this story from nurse-member Dara Tep, RN, and her colleagues.
Deadly Shame Part 1: Care Penalty
Employers, lawmakers, and society at large have systematically devalued care work. As nursing is historically characterized as “women’s work,” nurses pay a “care penalty” resulting in unfair wages and unsafe working conditions that threaten our very lives.
Did you know?
Nurse Lavinia Dock was a key voice in the movement for women's suffrage.
Press releases
