This rebuttal is so tired that it's actually (search for it in Dan and Scott's comments) banned from the site, but I think that's a mistake, because it is in fact a huge problem that there is a 91/9 split in nursing. A bigger problem than tech's disparity. The status-shifting we've done with "nursing" has resulted in scarce and expensive medical doctors being (almost always pointlessly) our first line of health care in the US. We should rename "nurse practitioners" to "associate physicians", discarding the gender-inflected term "nurse".

Yes, and that's recognized as a huge problem in that field. Were we in a nursing-focussed discussion forum, there's probably be a lot of talk about it.

It is a direct result of patriarchal social attitudes combined with the fact that nursing is perceived as a subordinate role to medicine, and therefore beneath men.

So it's actually a manifestation of the same broad social problem as the disparity in tech, rather than the mirror image.

As far as I can tell, hospitals recognize it's a problem and are doing what they can in terms of recruitment.

It's not even just hospitals

The American Association of Men in Nursing: http://www.aamn.org/

The Campaign for Nursing’s Future: https://www.discovernursing.com/men-in-nursing

Minority Nurse: http://minoritynurse.com/

Oregon Center for Nursing: http://oregoncenterfornursing.org/nursing-posters/

And why do you think it came to this point?

Hint - it has to do with getting in the medical school.