Over the years, the practice of nursing in the United States has undergone significant and significant changes. Nursing has gone from an unrecognizable profession to a recognizable and respectable career choice for women. After World War II, nurses had to move from working in private homes to working in public hospitals. There was an urgent need for nurses in hospitals due to the various communicable diseases that existed. Additionally, "the rise of feminism in the 1960s influenced public attitudes toward women, their work, and their education." In Daring to Care: American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism by Susan Gelfand Malka, she analyzes that the second wave of feminism had a serious impact on nursing education and practice. The public stereotypically presented that nurses had feminine characteristics. Malka argued that changes to their uniforms, from a traditional white apron uniform with a white cap to scrubs, ended the public's image of nursing. The impact of the second wave of feminism produced various negative effects, some positive, which ended the differences between the gender roles of a nurse and a doctor. The connection between nursing and feminism was seen as anything but simple. It was almost natural and highly expected that the nurses would all be women and the doctors would be men. “The feminization of nursing also avoided uncomfortable situations in which a nurse took orders from a nurse, which defied gender conventions. Malka explained how nurses conformed to feminist positions and that "nurses do everything that doctors and janitors don't want to do." According to expected hospital hierarchies, male doctors were always a step above nurses. In hospitals...... middle of paper ......usan Gelfand Malka, Daring to Care: American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism (University of Illinois Press, 2007), 113.Susan Gelfand Malka, Daring Care : American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism (University of Illinois Press, 2007), 94. Ibid. Susan Gelfand Malka, Daring to Care: American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism (University of Illinois Press, 2007), 96. Susan Gelfand Malka, Daring to Care: American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism (University of Illinois Press, 2007), 128. Susan Gelfand Malka, Daring to Care: American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism (University of Illinois Press, 2007), 89. Susan Gelfand Malka, Daring to Care: American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism (University of Illinois Press, 2007 ), 143. Susan Gelfand Malka, Daring to Care: American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism (University of Illinois Press, 2007), 143. 1.Ibid..