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Prisons and garbage men... I think it would be interesting if someone did a survey across all of Mike Rowe's dirty Jobs to see what the sex representation was.
by readthenotes1 3y ago
Prisons and garbage men...
I think it would be interesting if someone did a survey across all of Mike Rowe's dirty Jobs to see what the sex representation was.
- rjbwork 3y agoI think that those are not generally seen as desirable career paths, and thus there are no vested interests by various cohorts to break into them and achieve parity. When you consider how materially comfortable working from home, writing code, and sending emails, or working on a research project at a university lab in a tenure-track position is as opposed to doing those "dirty jobs", it should become apparent why the focus is on the PMC sector of jobs as opposed to those "dirty jobs".
- michaelt 3y agoPrivate Military Contractors like Blackwater/Xe/Academi/Constellis have indeed long been a lucrative and male-dominated field :)
- layman51 3y agoThey meant “professional-managerial class” which might be a political or social science term.
- rjbwork 3y agoHuh. Indeed it is. I must have picked it up via osmosis, I had not before read the wikipedia page on it with all its underlying political implications. It is the concept I intended to convey, however.
- rjbwork 3y agoSorry, I was referring to "Professional-Managerial Class."
- wnoise 3y agoA couple people missed the smiley...
- hx8 3y agoThis is exactly the point. Men are over represented in some of the best jobs and some of the worst jobs.
- XorNot 3y agoAnd what, just pretend that any woman trying to enter those fields wouldn't face immense sexist hostility and harassment?
- readthenotes1 3y agoI never considered that women trying to get into felonious crime might face sexist hostility. Made me think!