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The worst jobs out there are male dominated, and we don't see some big push to get more women working in them. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/04/20/

The worst jobs out there are male dominated, and we don't see some big push to get more women working in them. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/04/20/the-worst-jobs-in-america/39364439/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/04/20/the-worst-jo...

burkaman 8y ago
Did you actually look at this list? 1. Taxi Driver: Uber and Lyft have significantly increased the number of women, and there are lots of efforts to get more women involved. https://www.gosafr.com/ https://www.gosafr.com/ is one example. 2. Logger: This is probably the kind of job you were thinking of. Logging is completely male dominated, but there are some small efforts at change: https://www.pressherald.com/2019/03/17/the-axe-women-loggers-of-maine-emphasize-maines-forestry-heritage/ https://www.pressherald.com/2019/03/17/the-axe-women-loggers... and https://www.tigercat.com/between-the-branches/logger-girl/ https://www.tigercat.com/between-the-branches/logger-girl/ 3. Newspaper reporter: Majority male, but not overwhelmingly. Definitely a big push to equalize the field: http://www.womensmediacenter.com/reports/the-status-of-women-in-u.s.-media-2017 http://www.womensmediacenter.com/reports/the-status-of-women... 4. Retail salesperson: Majority women. 5. Enlisted military personnel: Hard to summarize here, but issues around women in the US military come up quite frequently in Congress and elsewhere, and the history of increasing participation and equality is long. 6. Corrections officer: Women were 37% of adult officers and 51% of juvenile officers in 2007 (http://www.corrections.com/articles/21703-women-as-corrections-professionals http://www.corrections.com/articles/21703-women-as-correctio...). There is a push to increase equality: https://www.correctionsone.com/women-in-corrections/ https://www.correctionsone.com/women-in-corrections/ 7. Disc jockey: Hard to find exact stats, but it's the same story as everywhere else in modern society. Used to be completely male dominated, now women are increasingly entering the industry and fighting against entrenched stereotypes. A random article: https://www.laweekly.com/music/women-djs-are-out-there-clubs-and-festivals-just-need-to-book-them-7091548 https://www.laweekly.com/music/women-djs-are-out-there-clubs... 8. Broadcaster: Feel like I'm starting to repeat myself. It's the same story as everywhere else in the media. Look at the Women's Media Center and other organizations for evidence of a push. 9. Advertising salesperson: Is this the kind of job you thought was on this list? Majority women, apparently: https://datausa.io/profile/soc/112011/#demographics https://datausa.io/profile/soc/112011/#demographics 10. Painter: Seems to be similar to logging. I honestly don't know why. Presumably it's historically male (like everything), and it's not a particularly desirable career for anyone. etc. Industries like logging and painting are outliers. There are some jobs that are so physically demanding that men have a significant innate advantage, but there's no natural reason for any industry to be 95+% male.
- tomohawk 8y ago
  Go ahead and cherry pick and tilt at straw men, but my point still stands.
  - ionised 8y ago
    Seems like he just posted 10 points to counter your shaky 1, then you proceeded to ignore every one of them before finishing off with an accusation of a straw-man argument.

burkaman 8y ago

Did you actually look at this list? 1. Taxi Driver: Uber and Lyft have significantly increased the number of women, and there are lots of efforts to get more women involved. https://www.gosafr.com/ https://www.gosafr.com/ is one example. 2. Logger: This is probably the kind of job you were thinking of. Logging is completely male dominated, but there are some small efforts at change: https://www.pressherald.com/2019/03/17/the-axe-women-loggers-of-maine-emphasize-maines-forestry-heritage/ https://www.pressherald.com/2019/03/17/the-axe-women-loggers... and https://www.tigercat.com/between-the-branches/logger-girl/ https://www.tigercat.com/between-the-branches/logger-girl/ 3. Newspaper reporter: Majority male, but not overwhelmingly. Definitely a big push to equalize the field: http://www.womensmediacenter.com/reports/the-status-of-women-in-u.s.-media-2017 http://www.womensmediacenter.com/reports/the-status-of-women... 4. Retail salesperson: Majority women. 5. Enlisted military personnel: Hard to summarize here, but issues around women in the US military come up quite frequently in Congress and elsewhere, and the history of increasing participation and equality is long. 6. Corrections officer: Women were 37% of adult officers and 51% of juvenile officers in 2007 (http://www.corrections.com/articles/21703-women-as-corrections-professionals http://www.corrections.com/articles/21703-women-as-correctio...). There is a push to increase equality: https://www.correctionsone.com/women-in-corrections/ https://www.correctionsone.com/women-in-corrections/ 7. Disc jockey: Hard to find exact stats, but it's the same story as everywhere else in modern society. Used to be completely male dominated, now women are increasingly entering the industry and fighting against entrenched stereotypes. A random article: https://www.laweekly.com/music/women-djs-are-out-there-clubs-and-festivals-just-need-to-book-them-7091548 https://www.laweekly.com/music/women-djs-are-out-there-clubs... 8. Broadcaster: Feel like I'm starting to repeat myself. It's the same story as everywhere else in the media. Look at the Women's Media Center and other organizations for evidence of a push. 9. Advertising salesperson: Is this the kind of job you thought was on this list? Majority women, apparently: https://datausa.io/profile/soc/112011/#demographics https://datausa.io/profile/soc/112011/#demographics 10. Painter: Seems to be similar to logging. I honestly don't know why. Presumably it's historically male (like everything), and it's not a particularly desirable career for anyone. etc. Industries like logging and painting are outliers. There are some jobs that are so physically demanding that men have a significant innate advantage, but there's no natural reason for any industry to be 95+% male.

tomohawk 8y ago
Go ahead and cherry pick and tilt at straw men, but my point still stands.
- ionised 8y ago
  Seems like he just posted 10 points to counter your shaky 1, then you proceeded to ignore every one of them before finishing off with an accusation of a straw-man argument.