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A U.S. Navy nurse attends to a child. Nursing is a profession which is staffed unproportionately by women in most parts of the world. [1] [2] [3] According to the World Health Organization's (WHO) 2020 State of the World's Nursing, approximately 10% of the worldwide nursing workforce is male. [2]
A male nurse at Runwell Hospital, Wickford, Essex, in 1943. Nursing is a female-dominated profession. The male-to-female ratio of nurses is approximately 1:19 in Canada and the United States, despite attempts to correct the imbalance. [27] [28]
It includes nurses that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. The main article for this category is men in nursing . Pages in category "Male nurses"
Male nurses have always been a slim division in an industry that's been booming for years -- an industry still dominated by women. According to Male Nurse Magazine (who knew?), out of the ...
Ten percent of nurses are now male, compared to just 2.7 percent in 1970. And the newest entrants to the field are earning more and making on average about $10,000 more than their female ...
The popular image of a nurse is young, white, single and female. Sometimes she's a sexless, humorless harpy (Nurse Ratched) and sometimes she's a sexy bimbo (Nurse Betty). But she's rarely a guy.
The Society of Registered Male Nurses was a British professional body for male nurses founded in 1937 with six members [1] including Mr Edward J. Glavin. [1] Prior to the Society there were a number of small agencies that placed trained male nurses, often from the co-operative movement such as the Male Nurses (Temperance) Co-operation. [ 2 ]
Some people view that male nurses do not confirm to the traditional gender stereotyped role that women are the caretakers, and many consider nursing to be a women-only profession. [13] In 2006, a male nurse won a discriminatory case against the National Health Service which refused to let him perform procedures on women without a female ...