I work at a college in Indiana while I am finishing up my nursing pre-reqs. This morning I noticed the most recent graduating class picture hanging in the nursing faculty offices. Out of fifty students, ten of them were men (aka 20%). I was scanning through previous years stored upstairs because I was curious, and I have to say it is remarkable how many more men have graduated in the past five years compared to the pictures from just fifteen years ago.
So, a three part question:
1)How many men were/are in your class?
2)Do you think the ratio for men/women will ever near 50/50, and if so, how long do you suspect this will take?
3)If this trend is universal, as I suspect it may be, what do you think this means for nursing as a whole? Will this mean a drastic change in the way nursing is viewed or practiced, or do you think it will remain the exact same discipline, but with more gender equality and nothing else?
If this needs moved to the student section, please feel free to do so. I posted it here because I thought it would be interesting to see the results of nurses who graduated a few years prior, in addition to current nursing students. Have a good day everybody.
my Adult nursing class graduated in 2006 female only!! Was one guy in it in first year but never completed his clinicals so didn't get into 2nd year. The psychiatric nursing class of 2002 was about 40% male mostly mature students that had been HCAs or second careers. The Intellectual Disability nursing class was about 30% male all but one of them were mature students either HCAs or second careers as well. Dont have a midwifery program at my uni so no info!
Maybe because of the way nursing is taught in Ireland may suggest the ratios of men to women in the classes more in psych and ID than general. Saying that our group was odd in that we did not have a single male in it compared to previous and later years! But we had a girl that was a rally driver, another that was a mechanical engineer etc so no chance of us being a girly lot esp since the uni was surrounded farmland so plenty of farmers wives and daughters as well............I knew how to place an NG before I started uni from feeding sick lambs!!!!
I work at a college in Indiana while I am finishing up my nursing pre-reqs. This morning I noticed the most recent graduating class picture hanging in the nursing faculty offices. Out of fifty students, ten of them were men (aka 20%). I was scanning through previous years stored upstairs because I was curious, and I have to say it is remarkable how many more men have graduated in the past five years compared to the pictures from just fifteen years ago.
So, a three part question:
1)How many men were/are in your class?
2)Do you think the ratio for men/women will ever near 50/50, and if so, how long do you suspect this will take?
3)If this trend is universal, as I suspect it may be, what do you think this means for nursing as a whole? Will this mean a drastic change in the way nursing is viewed or practiced, or do you think it will remain the exact same discipline, but with more gender equality and nothing else?
If this needs moved to the student section, please feel free to do so. I posted it here because I thought it would be interesting to see the results of nurses who graduated a few years prior, in addition to current nursing students. Have a good day everybody.
I started of with like 7 men in my class halfway through the first semester it was down to 4 and is still like that going into the third semester
there is 20 students in my class right now started of with about 25-30 and a bunch dropped out or never showed up to class so by the end of the first semester there was 22
My evening/weekend class of 32 had 3 guys, including me. Most of the class worked full time except for 2 or 3 stay at home moms and one of the guys, who was in the military and somehow wangled a 2-year LOA. We lost 3 females but all of the guys made it through.
For the school as a whole that year, there were about 8 men in a total class of about 120.
In my opinion, we're not likely to get to 50:50 male:female for several generations.
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4 males including me, in a class of 47