A common goal achieved by stealth

A group of male nurses found it so difficult to win the support of their prospective parents-in-law that they resorted to tricks to gain their approval.

Among the 15 male nurses employed by the Hefei First Hospital Group, 13 are married, and at least 11 of them are married to college classmates, according to Yang Bin, a male nurse from the Hefei Binhu Hospital, in the capital of Anhui province.

"Nursing is often considered not to be a good job for men, so we all faced opposition from our prospective parents-in-law," he said.