Men in nursing

Nursing is a profession which is staffed unproportionately by women in most parts of the world. According to the World Health Organization's (WHO) 2020 State of the World's Nursing, approximately 10% of the worldwide nursing workforce is male. 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, around 10% in the United Kingdom in 2016, around 6.4% in Canada in 2010. In Scandinavia, about 10% of nurses in Norway were men in 2022, with the same percentage in Sweden in 2016, and 4% in Denmark in 2023.

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