[vacri]

Teaching and nursing are both fields where you need a degree to start participating. And if you look at the discussions in those fields, there's certainly strong concern about lack of males in teaching and mild concern about lack of males in nursing.

Tech doesn't require a degree - it's a field anyone with a free evening can pick up. It also bears a significantly broader scope than nursing or teaching.

[wfunction]

> Tech doesn't require a degree - it's a field anyone with a free evening can pick up.

And yet here we are, wondering why so many programmers don't seem to have the skills they need in the profession.

[adamnemecek]

> Teaching and nursing are both fields where you need a degree to start participating.

How is that relevant?

[vacri]

The pool of participants is much narrower in scope - people that have specifically spent years training to be that profession. Not people who started out doing it as a hobby or a quiet thing on the side.

[toasterlovin]

I think the OP was asking how requiring a degree is relevant to the number of men in those professions. When compared to women, men generally have equal or better access to higher education, so it would seem that the dearth of men in nursing and teaching wouldn't be related to those professions requiring a degree.