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"when I take public transport it's 75% men" UK Birmingham: my experience is the total inverse of that. I work a three day week in a College that is a reasonabl
by keithpeter 11y ago
"when I take public transport it's 75% men"
UK Birmingham: my experience is the total inverse of that. I work a three day week in a College that is a reasonable commute from where I live. Bus and train.
One early morning per week (out at 6am): cleaners and nurses.
One night I'm coming home after 9pm. Its (mostly female) care staff coming off shift until we hit the outskirts of Birmingham when we pick up some of the the postal workers coming off shift.
Other commutes: admin and retail workers - mostly women.
One of the other days of the traditional working week I'm doing sessional work locally and its women and children all the way on a mid-morning and late afternoon bus ride.
Chaps: construction workers going into the New St site of an early morning come in by coach and have breakfast in a cafe. Guess what gender the cooks and servers are. And guess how they got to work.
Rooms mostly full of women: management meetings. I work in UK public sector (and its fine).
- JPKab 11y agoIn the US, the vast, vast majority of restaurant cooks are men, as are all of the other back of the house jobs. Servers are predominantly female. The back of the house jobs pay less except in restaurants where tip-sharing is enacted, unless the restaurant has poor business and gets few customers/tips.
- keithpeter 11y agoYep restaurant cooks/chefs are predominantly male. I was talking more about the greasy spoon cafes, which tend to have predominantly female staff. I gather tip sharing is the norm in UK for the kind of restaurant where people do tipping e.g. pizza houses upward.