Setting the Record Straight: Social Work Is Not a Female-Dominated Profession

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Public perception of social work and social workers in Aotearoa New Zealand

“…This link to gender has also been hypothesised as one of the reasons why there may be low status and pay within the profession, as it has predominantly been associated with being a female profession. McPhail (2004) offers some challenges to simple explanations for this factual numerical domination, arguing that while typically heroic accounts of the female founders of social work flourish in the professional discourse, these mask institutional sexism and often invisible barriers to women's leadership. It is possible though that from the outside, men may perceive less opportunity for them in social work, an aspect worthy of further study.…”

Masculinity and Social Work Practice

“…Women in social work still work within the patriarchal structures of employing organizations and may at times serve patriarchal interests, even if they are actively challenging them. McPhail (2004) challenges the representation of social work as a female-dominated profession because despite constituting the majority of members, women do not control the profession. Curriculum content is still dominated by male social work theorists; and quantitative and masculinist approaches to research still predominate, at least in the West.…”

Art Therapists Within Borders: Grappling With the Collective "We" of Identity

“…It is doubtful that art therapy associations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, or Korea are pre dominately Caucasian. Nor does having a numerical majority automatically translate into certain groups having more power or control (McPhail, 2004). Although men made up less than 10% of the survey sample cited by Elkins and Deaver, they are proportionally more often elected to leadership positions, hired as graduate program faculty, published in this journal, and able to benefit from gender disparity in the workplace.…”

“…Yet women have not solely founded, dominated, or led the profession. McPhail (2004) regarded such narratives as little more than "a form of heroine worship" that privileges one essentialist identity while obscuring larger historical contexts and the complex development of a profession. The assumption that 93% of all art therapists are female-rather than 93% of a particular sample-becomes woven into perceptions of a group identity that may be largely imagined rather than experienced personally.…”