Maybe SOME ATTITUDES are heavily influenced by cultural attitudes, and is either influenced by the sugar and spice theory or like so many others is willing to discriminate purely on gender grounds without going the extra mile and treating all students as individuals. I do find strange though his ideas of allowing female staff to supervise or watch adolescent boys whilst changing or showering come from. It may not do any harm, but this takes absolutely no account of the feelings of very young and impressionable young men.
In a previous post Dr D indicates (in previous threads) that on odd occasions, duty nursing staff may have to witness a caning. Knowing quite a few nurses, I find it hard to imagine any of them even remotely agreeing to either attend or allow such a thing to happen. Maybe Australian nurses are of a different breed entirely, even the younger ones? Perhaps I am being unfair, as the UK today is a hotbed of political correctness where the wrong look can land you in trouble.