A recent trend garnering scholarly interest is the large number of men entering female-dominated fields. Sally Lindsay (2007) has coined this as the masculinization of women’s work, meaning the movement of the men into women’s occupations. An example of this is in the field of nurse anesthesia. According to Lindsay (2007), the nurse anesthesia field has “evolved from a low-status, women’s specialty to a high-status profession where male comprise nearly half of all the employees” (p.429). The masculinization of women’s work is a process of gender transformation in which more men are present in such fields as nurse anesthesia, and the occupation comes to be viewed as men’s work (Lindsay, 2007; Lupton, 2006). Through three stages : infiltration, invasion, and takeover (Bradley, 1993). While Bradley’s typologies provide a descriptive process, Lindsay (2007) argues that they do not fully capture why the process evolves. Lindsay (2007) offers four key themes that explain what draws men into these professions: