Welcome to Season Two of The Social Work Community Podcast!

In this episode we'll be discussing whether we need more male social workers. The social work profession is female dominated – recent figures show women make up about 80-85% of the workforce in the United Kingdom. Why is this and what can be done to change this? Does it need changing?

Sharmeen Ziauddin, careers editor at Community Care, speaks to social workers Curtis Powell and Jason Barnes about their experience of the sector, why they choose the social work profession and what they, as men, bring to the table.

Read the transcript here.

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