THE GENDER IMBALANCE AMONG SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPISTS AND STUDENTS

Steven Boyd · Nigel Hewlett

44 citations0/0 files storedInternational Journal of Language & Communication Disorders

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Diversity and Career in Medicine Career Development and Diversity Gender Studies in Language

Abstract

Speech and language therapy is still a predominantly female profession. This paper reports the numbers and percentages of males among the population of student speech and language therapists in the UK in 1999-2000. The numbers imply that there is no prospect of redressing the gender imbalance in the near future. Information was gathered by means of a questionnaire to male speech and language therapy students and male therapists on the reasons for their career choice and their occupation-related experience concerning their gender. Most therapists reported advantages from their gender but a minority reported difficulties arising from being a man in the speech and language therapy profession. The issue of working alone with children is identified as being in urgent need of resolution.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 44 citations exist upstream.

Cited by

2007Factors Influencing the Selection of Speech Pathology as a Career: A Qualitative Analysis Utilising the Systems Theory Framework 2005Perceptions of physiotherapy compared with nursing and medicine amongst minority ethnic and White UK students: implications for recruitment 2008Current and prospective speech-language pathology students' reports of exposure to speech-language pathology 2010Why do students from related professions choose not to enter speech-language pathology?2020“Providing a perspective that’s a little bit different”: Academic and professional experiences of male speech-language pathologists 2012Motivating factors influencing choice of major in undergraduates in communication sciences and disorders 2023Motivations for choosing an allied health profession career: findings from a scoping review 2022A scoping review of the role of gender within speech-language pathology practice

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.