Nursery World - I'm your man

Heard the one about the male nanny? He says he wouldn't swap his job for anything, as Simon Vevers discovers When women have broken into previously male-dominated jobs, they have usually had to battle against a tidal wave of chauvinism. Men venturing into childcare have found themselves up against similar prejudices - but they rarely do so under the media spotlight. This makes the small, but growing, number of men who have succeeded in becoming nannies all the more remarkable.

When women have broken into previously male-dominated jobs, they have usually had to battle against a tidal wave of chauvinism. Men venturing into childcare have found themselves up against similar prejudices - but they rarely do so under the media spotlight. This makes the small, but growing, number of men who have succeeded in becoming nannies all the more remarkable.

And yet for Peter Johnstone it's the most natural thing in the world. With a grandmother who was a foster parent and a mother who is a childminder, 27-year-old Peter, from Linlithgow in Scotland, believes it was 'in his genes' to take up a career in childcare.

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