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BACKGROUND: Ancient history mentions the dominance of men in nursing; however, now nursinghas a feminine image, and globally more than 90% of nursing workforce is females. Recently, morenumber of males are attracted to nursing, but there is a paucity of literature on the attitude of peopleabout men in nursing may be because of a lack of measurement scales available for this purpose.The aim of this study was to develop and validate a new scale measuring attitude of people towardmen in nursing.MATERIALS AND METHODS: The present study was conducted at a tertiary care hospital and usedan exploratory sequential design with an instrument development model. A total of 400 participantswere selected using the simple random sampling technique. The reliability, content validity, facevalidity, and construct validity of this newly developed scale were computed. For data analyses SPSSAMOS version 23 was used for performing exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses.RESULTS: The new scale “AMnQ” consists of 15 items under three factors: (I) nursing is feministicand professionally low, (II) higher suitability of male nurses in technical and challenging situations,and (III) synonymy of empathy and care with a female. The final model with 15 items of AMnQ scalewas validated by confirmatory factor analysis and showed a good fit to data. The Cronbach’s α forthe overall scale was 0.87, and for Factors I, II, and III, it was 0.80, 0.88, and 0.89, respectively.CONCLUSIONS: The “AMnQ” is a valid, reliable scale to assess the attitude of patients, nurses,physicians, and nursing students toward men in nursing. There is an assumption that nursing is afeminine profession; therefore, a valid and reliable scale to measure the attitude of people towardmen in nursing will help to generate pieces of evidence on this subject, so that policymakers canmake unbiased decisions on liberalizing entry of men in nursing.