What were the gender ratios in your nursing classes?

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I'm a 24 year old male entering an Accelerated BSN program at Umass in September. Although it has very little to do with my desire to go into nursing, the gender discrepency (supposedly 93%-7% in the workplace) is certainly a nice fringe benefit. Did you guys find the gender ratio to be very favorable to heterosexual males?

Specializes in psych, general, emerg, mash.

whether gay or straight. your sexual orientation has nothing to do with your work.

If you get hit on, consider it a compliment. I am a male nurse, and I have been hit, and enjoy it.

be their friend, not a lover.

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Specializes in LTC, MDS, plasmapheresis.

It has nothing to is why I don't want hit on. One women stalked me, ended up fired. It's CREEPY. They need to stick to try to snagging a doctor and leave the gay boys alone. Or get some gaydar, and perhaps leave the date chase to off hours? I just want to do a job when I'm at work.

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Geez, I feel lucky if I can get a stray dog to pay attention to me.

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Specializes in LTC, MDS, plasmapheresis.

Aw, come on- it can't be THAT bad? Anyway- my point is work is for work. Nurses are always claiming 'professionalism', etc. It's not the place for cruising.

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Specializes in LTC, MDS, plasmapheresis.

And besides, we all know the results of a relationship at work gone bad. One or the other will end up not having a job.

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Out of a class of a senior class of 30 traditional students and 31 accelerated track students 4 men and all of them in the accelerated track.

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Specializes in LTC, MDS, plasmapheresis.

From my point of experience? Women are better physicians, men are better at direct nursing. I have always found women to be more sensitive in a physician role, and men even more compassionate (and no nonsense and get the job done, and patient oriented, without the politcial BS) then women.

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Specializes in Oncology, ID, Hepatology, Occy Health.

Class of 24, 3 men to 21 women. 2 of the women dropped out along the way. 1 woman failed the final exams, but succeeded at the re-take.

All the women as far as I know were straight. If any were lesbians or bisexual, they weren't out.

Of us 3 guys, one gay (myself), two straight. I wasn't treated as one of the girls, and would have found that patronising. I think we three guys were all treated pretty much the same. We three guys got on well, though no particular male solidarity amongst us as no real need for it. We had friendships and clans within the group regardless of gender.

Four of the girls in particular were an exclusive clique who really didn't want to get along with the rest of us, or so it seemed. They were generally considered 4 b******, though I did my last placement with one of them and we found we got on - I concluded her behaviour was something of a front and she was a nice person underneath. Always considered the other 3 to be b****** to the end though, however don't consider bitchiness to be an exclusively female trait. There is a double standard here of which I'm as guilty as anybody. A guy does it and he's "sarcastic, he's got a dry sense of humour" whereas when a women does it, she's considered a b****.

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11/32 in our accelerated class in another Massachusetts program were male. Not sure about the sexuality thing--my assumption was that everyone was heterosexual. But I really don't spend much time wondering about these things.

From what I've read on these boards over the years, there seems to be a significantly higher percentage of males in the accelerated programs. I'm not totally sure what that is, other than accelerated students are older, and presumedly less concerned about the "stigma" of entering nursing? Dunno.

I'm a 24 year old male entering an accelerated BSN program at Umass in September. Although it has very little to do with my desire to go into nursing, the gender discrepency (supposedly 93%-7% in the workplace) is certainly a nice fringe benefit. Did you guys find the gender ratio to be very favorable to heterosexual males?
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Specializes in ICU / PCU / Telemetry / Oncology.

18 out of 64 in my class are males. About 28% in an ABSN ... that's pretty impressive.

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I'm a 24 year old male entering an accelerated BSN program at Umass in September. Although it has very little to do with my desire to go into nursing, the gender discrepency (supposedly 93%-7% in the workplace) is certainly a nice fringe benefit. Did you guys find the gender ratio to be very favorable to heterosexual males?

Lol I'm thinking nobody is wanting to answer your question or totally got thrown off by the word heterosexual. Here is my theory on why.

The man who gets lucky in nursing school doesn't want to get on here and brag b/c women talk. That just might endanger his pool of candidates on his next go around. So the only men left to answer are married or gay. The married guy competes with his wife and children (age 3,5,9) for computer time so he doesn't get to surf this site long enough to type replies (sigh). The gay guys took this question as a poll for hetero vs. gay men in nursing. Sorry but your question may never be answered. But heh, good luck!

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Recent grad of an accelerated class, 33 in total ... 7 men and 26 women

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