Men in nursing

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] Since the 1960s, nursing has gradually become more gender-inclusive. The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) in the United States conducted a National Nursing Workforce Survey in 2020 and found that men represent 9.4% of registered nurses, compared to 9.1% in 2017, 8% in 2015, and 6.6% in 2013.

Men constituted around 9% of nurses in the United States in 2011,[4] around 10% in the United Kingdom in 2016,[5] around 6.4% in Canada in 2010.[6] In Scandinavia, about 10% of nurses in Norway were men in 2022,[7] with the same percentage in Sweden in 2016,[8] and 4% in Denmark in 2023.[9]

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  2. ^ a b "State of the World's Nursing 2020" (PDF). World Health Organization. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
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  4. ^ Landivar, Liana Christin (2013). "Men in Nursing Occupations" (PDF). Census. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-07-13. Retrieved 2017-06-06.
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  6. ^ Canadian Nurses Association (February 2012). "2010 Workforce Profile of Registered Nurses in Canada" (PDF). Canadian Nurses Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-04. Retrieved 2017-06-06.
  7. ^ Karlsmoen, Renate (2022-01-04). "Aldri har flere menn vært sykepleiere". Sykepleien (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  8. ^ Ejd, Maria (2016-12-01). "Fortfarande få män som väljer att bli sjuksköterska". Vårdfokus (in Swedish). Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  9. ^ Klinker Stephensen, Emma (2023-05-27). "Flere kvindelige topchefer i det offentlige – men få mænd vil være sygeplejersker og sosu'er". TV2 (in Danish). Retrieved 2024-08-03.