“There was a labor and delivery nurse who flat out told me that I would not be hired just because I’m a man!” he exclaimed. Alvarez works at Denver Health and is also a student in the University of Colorado College of Nursing’s nurse-midwifery program and said, at this point, he’s used to being the only male nurse in the room. “There are just not a lot of men in this profession, so the first question people ask me is 'Why you, as a man, would want to be in this field?'” said Alvarez. “My first response is that wanting to take care of people has nothing to do with your gender.”