Otis Kryzanauskas, a 26-year-old man, has decided to pursue a profession which is primarily a female job throughout the world.

It is highly improbable to find a male midwife in Canada. In fact, there have only been three men who ever pursued a career as midwives. One of them has retired, one more is still working and the other is in the process of becoming one. On the other hand, there are over a thousand female midwives in the country, CBC News reports. The Canadian Association of Midwives informs that there is only a single man in that list.

Mr Kryzanauskas, who has already delivered more than 300 babies since his certification in 2012, says that people get shocked to hear that he is a midwife. His predecessor retired in 1997 after he had been a midwife along with his wife for 11 years. One cannot blame Canada for having a gender bias for this profession as the profession of being a midwife has primarily been a female-dominated one all over the world for ages.

The number of men in Australia registered for being midwives in 2013 is just 9, whereas there are over 2,200 women midwives, according to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. On the other hand, according to the American College of Nurse-Midwives, only 2 per cent of certified nurse midwives in the U.S. are men. If we look in the statistical records in the U.K., about 90 per cent of the midwives were female in 2008, according to the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

In fact, the term 'midwife' itself denotes a female personality. There is apparently a suggestive order that men are not supposed to do this work. Even if we go by the history, mostly women - leaving rare exceptions - have been involved in performing the role of the person who helps a mother deliver a child. However, in the eighteenth century England, there were some men who got involved in the profession. They were called he-midwives or man-midwives.

According to Mr Kryzanauskas, there has to be someone to do it for the first time.