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How many male speech-language pathologists work in the hospital setting? Is it considered "weird" for men to do so? I shadowed an SLP and was surprised to find that her job included holding and feeding preemies in the NICU. Would people have an adverse reaction to a male doing this? Do you think there would be an unwritten closed-door policy regarding hiring male SLPs for the hospital setting? An advisor for the local SLP program told me that 90% of the profession is made up of women. And that most of the men who do enter the field usually wind up in research and teaching. Why is this?