The paper is an attempt to scrutinize and analyse the current nursing manpower problem in Taiwan through a feminist perspective. The researcher sees problems facing either by nurses as individuals and the nursing profession as a whole, be aroused from the fact that nursing is a profession for women in patriarchal society. Modern nursing history is an excellent indicator of women working in the public domain while Taiwan provides an unusually good example of a rapidly industrializing society within which to view the effects of modernization on women's role. In this paper autobiographies were collected in order to examine nurses' life stories an intention of staying in nursing. From what they experienced and intend to do in the future, we also try to figure out how and why nursing has lost and keeps on loosing its members.