Perhaps it’s an extreme reflection of university education as a whole in which only 43% of students are male. I think the figure for SW has fallen to around 15% male. That’s an exceptionally poor reflective representation of the communities SW purports to serve. Is there any research into this remarkable lack of employee diversity?

Just what is it about social work over the past few decades that continues to make it increasingly unattractive to men?

Let’s start???

Staying with published SWE statistics, there might be further more poignant questions.

The issues (if merited) would be around the workplace reason(s) causing white female social workers to be (negatively) targeting older (over 40 plus) black male swrs to Ftp process. I say white female, because statistically, black female managers and snr practitioners would and are likely in growing minority.

Removing the race element, it seems established statistically that black/white males are more likely to be referred in the workplace than females. The referrer likely being female. When you introduce the race element, it does become more complex. This is because it could negatively misrepresent on black female managers legitimately addressing Ftp issues towards male sw (black and white). Perhaps more challenging for black females addressing Ftp issues towards their white fe/male counterparts, unless supported.

My own personal opinion is that older black males for different reasons, are more likely to speak up on certain issues if they see/feel cause. It does however come with a cost!

The profession clearly needs more male workers, perhaps more so now.

I am continually shocked and surprised by the blatant discrimination and harassment demonstrated by certain managers or senior pracs.
Whilst these people are in the minority they are often able to have the greatest impact by destroying workers confidence in their employment.
Male privilege may unfortunately still be in existence in certain areas, but in my experience, in social work being a male makes you a target for discrimination and harassment from certain females pushing their own personal agenda or simple misandry.
I certainly wouldn’t encourage males to enter social work at the current time.

Glad to hear things improved for you. Many of us agree with the points you made.

Sorry Daniel to hear of this experience. Your experience sounds very similar to that of a colleague I supported who is close to me. I still cannot get my head around the trauma that the whole process has caused for the person and their family. It is a very lonely journey.
The statistics also worry me, as the 3 categories highlighted can easily apply to one person. It just screams discrmination and racism . I am trying to conjure some hope from knowing this is being looked into, but when i remind myself that those who refer are usually not identifying with these categories, neither do those in SWE , i lose all hope

Same here..this really gave me light to what I’m getting myself into. And I don’t like it.