The Job Men Aren't Taking

Nursing is the job of the future. So why have men stayed away? It’s easy to imagine that the jobs of the future, if they even exist, will all revolve around technology. But it turns out, the jobs that are least likely to succumb to automation are those that involve building human relationships. The healthcare field is a prime example nurses, physician assistants and physical therapists have higher-than-average salaries and major expected job growth. These fields share something else in common, they’re dominated by women.

Despite the erosion of traditionally “masculine” fields like manufacturing, men just aren’t taking these high-paying, in-demand healthcare jobs in the numbers you’d expect. For decades, nursing in particular has been considered “women’s work,” in part because it’s assumed that women, more so than men, have a kind of innate capacity for caring and empathy. But men in nursing say this mindset is holding us back. . Video by Vox