Men in nursing.

Although often considered a women’s profession, men have served as nurses for centuries. From the early 1900s until the mid-1950s, however, men were banned from serving as military nurses, which fueled the present-day general misconception of nursing as a mainly female profession. From the 1970s, when men comprised less than 3 percent of all nurses in the United States, to the early 2020s, the number of male registered nurses (RNs) quadrupled, to over 13 percent of the nursing population.