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The idea that men can't be empathetic and perform empathy based jobs such as nursing and teaching kindergarten is as silly as the idea that women don't have the
by fleitz 15y ago
The idea that men can't be empathetic and perform empathy based jobs such as nursing and teaching kindergarten is as silly as the idea that women don't have the logical aptitude for computer programming.
I can pretty much guarantee you that men have as much to bring to nursing and teaching as women do to the tech sector.
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- aamar 15y agoI don't think the OP--or anyone--is saying that men can't do these jobs. Very nearly the opposite. The article says that these jobs are currently "largely performed by women" and suggests that the barriers to men performing these jobs are contingent cultural factors, which may reverse.
- _delirium 15y agoThat's slowly starting to happen in some areas, notably nursing. There are even starting to be a mirror-image of organizations like Society of Women Engineers (which advocate for women, who are under-represented in engineering) in growing areas where men are under-represented, such as the American Assembly for Men in Nursing (http://aamn.org/ http://aamn.org/).