Stereotypes down for male nurses

Perhaps aside from the WNBA, it's hard to find a career as thoroughly dominated by women as nursing.

In fact, according to the American Nurses Association, just 6% of nurses in the U.S. are men. Yet the disparity is declining as men are increasingly lured by respectable salaries, steady work and demand in both big cities and small towns.

Your Money talked to four New Yorkers who have embraced the profession.

William Donoghue: Psychiatric Nurse Going into nursing a few years after he returned from Vietnam, Donoghue, 60, began his career when the field was even more dominated by women. In 1977, helped by the G.I. Bill and encouraged by his wife, Helen, Donoghue dropped bartending and enrolled at the defunct Misericordia Hospital School of Nursing in the Bronx. When he completed his studies, he was ready for a new career.

"The pay wasn't the reason - I took a cut in pay," Donoghue said, explaining that he and his wife wanted to have children, and needed health insurance and stability. But today, the Woodlawn, Bronx, resident earns $95,000. He works with kids at Montefiore Medical Center and knows he's making a difference.

"There are few careers that give you that sense of satisfaction," Donoghue said.

James Angehr: Home Health Care

Angehr didn't leave a 16-year career as a Citigroup computer systems analyst for the money. He did it for a better lifestyle.

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