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portable · Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 7

Is radiography a good profession for a guy to be in? I had a tech tell me
"radiography is not good for males!" Are there certain areas where more guys work, like CT. Thanks for your help-

portable

CTDave · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:42 pm Post subject: Re:Males in radiography?

portable,

Depending on how you feel about working with a mostly female dominated profession, its an excellent field to work. I've been doing it for close to 40 years, and have enjoyed every bit of that time. It's like any profession, its what you put into it!!

Here's a good article:
From: Radiologic Technology, Ariticle:77:143-146 2005
© 2005 American Society of Radiologic Technologists
RE: REGISTRY

ARRT Gender Comparison
Jerry Reid, Ph.D
The ARRT looks for patterns in the demographic data it collects on the annual renewal form. Sorting the demographics of registered technologists (R.T.s) on a given variable may reveal patterns not obvious when looking at the data as a whole. Splitting the demographic data according to gender provides some interesting comparisons.

Gender Split

As of May 24, 2005, there were 247,674 R.T.s. This includes everyone who has maintained registration, whether working in the profession currently or not. Female R.T.s numbered 182,076, while there were 65,598 male R.T.s (73.5% and 26.5%, respectively). This approximate 3:1 ratio has been the same for at least the past 25 years.

Modialty of Employment

About 46% of female R.T.s reporting their discipline of employment and about 44% of male R.T.s are employed in radiography. Roughly 4% of women and 8% of men are employed in nuclear medicine technology. Approximately 6% of women and 6% of men are employed in radiation therapy. The rest report primary employment in a post-primary category.[/i:70a504b525]

Employment Status

About 87% of male R.T.s and 69% of female R.T.s are employed full time. Around 5% of men are employed part time in the profession compared to about 19% of women. About 7% of male R.T.s are inactive in the profession compared to more than 12% of female R.T.s.

Age

As a group, male R.T.s are slightly older than female R.T.s (median birth year is 1962 for men and 1963 for women). Those born during the baby boom (1946 to 1964) make up a significant portion of the distribution for both women and men.

Workplace

Men are more likely to work in hospitals – about 74% compared to 62% of women. Women are more likely to work in clinics or private offices (32% vs 18%).

Job Title

Approximately 76% of all R.T.s are employed as staff technologists. Men are more likely to be employed as administrators, managers, chief technologists, locum tenens or commercial representatives. Women are more likely to be educational program faculty, but about equally likely to be program directors.

Level of Education

Women are more likely than men to report their highest level of education as high school plus ARRT registration. Both men and women are about equally likely to report an associate degree as the highest level of education. Men are more likely than women to report the highest level of education as a bachelor’s, master’s, doctorate or doctor of medicine.

Footnotes:
Jerry Reid, Ph.D., is the regular contributing columnist for RE: Registry, which specializes in issues concerning the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists. Dr. Reid is executive director of the Registry. Questions or comments may be sent to his attention at the ARRT, 1255 Northland Dr., St. Paul, MN 55120-1155.

This article can be found on the ASRT website under publications "Radiologic Technology" "Ariticle:77:143-146 2005"

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ScrmnWoody · Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 40 Location: Bellingham, WA

I'm not sure I agree with the notion that it's a female dominated field. Granted, I did "grow up" in the military and most of the technologists I worked with were men. But, even in the 7 years post military, I have found the ratio to be pretty darn even...especially when you move into other modalities like CT or MRI.
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tomas · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 10

Try industrial radiography like me........but you'll be buying FLAVORITE the rest of your life!

papa · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 12:56 am Post subject:

yay for boys!!

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ok, that just sounded wrong.... Laughing

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