I assumed he was not doing as good of a job of providing a healing touch, when the very same could have been said of me or any of the other women in the class as newbies with limited experience. During one of our first practice sessions, I was paired with the male student. When I was in massage school, we only had one male student out of the ten people in the class.
It is a field dominated by women according to the American Massage Therapy Association, 85% of massage therapists in the United States are women. Some may assume a woman might have a more nurturing touch than a man, others worry about body shaming, some men are uncomfortable with the idea of another man touching them, and some women worry a male therapist may be more threatening in a vulnerable environment.
It is a field dominated by women according to the American Massage Therapy Association, 85% of massage therapists in the United States are women.Ĭlients often prefer to have a female massage therapist work on them for a variety of reasons.
Massage is one of the few career fields in where male practitioners face more challenge finding paid work than their female counterparts.
