Boyd, StevenHewlett, Nigel2018-06-292018-06-292001-04Boyd, S. and Hewlett, N. (2001) ‘The gender imbalance among speech and language therapists and students’, International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 36(s1), pp. 167–172. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3109/13682820109177878.ISSN: 1368-2822 Online ISSN: 1460-6984https://doi.org/10.3109/13682820109177878https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/2301Speech and language therapy is still a predominantly female profession. This paper reports the numbers and percentages of males among the population of student speech and language therapists in the UK in 1999-2000. The numbers imply that there is no prospect of redressing the gender imbalance in the near future. Information was gathered by means of a questionnaire to male speech and language therapy students and male therapists on the reasons for their career choice and their occupation-related experiences concerning their gender. Most therapists reported advantages from their gender but a minority reported difficulties arising from being a man in the speech and language therapy profession. The issue of working alone with children is identified as being in urgent need of resolution.167-172articlehttp://DOI: 10.3109/13682820109177878