Wearing brick-red scrubs1 and chatting in Spanish, Miguel Alquicira settled a tiny girl into an adult-size dental chair2 and soothed3 her through a set of X-rays. Then he ushered the dentist, a woman, into the room and stayed on to serve as interpreter. A male dental assistant, Mr. Alquicira is in the minority. But he is also part of a shift in workplace gender patterns.4 Over the last decade, men have begun flocking to “pink-collar” fields. Wearing brick-red scrubs1 and chatting in Spanish, Miguel Alquicira settled a tiny girl into an adult-size dental chair2 and soothed3 her through a set of X-rays. Then he ushered the dentist, a woman, into the room and stayed on to But he is also part of a shift in workplace gender patterns. 4 Over the last decade, men have begun flocking to “pink-collar” fields.