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Why does no one care how many men are in hairdressing, finger nail painting, child care, teaching and so on?
by alan_cx 13y ago
Why does no one care how many men are in hairdressing, finger nail painting, child care, teaching and so on?
- gammarator 13y agoBecause those are low paid, low-status jobs? Or to flip the question, if they were highly paid, what would stop men from taking them?
- ninkendo 13y agoBecause they aren't considered to be as desirable of jobs? Same reason women aren't generally complaining that they're not as well represented in coal mining, oil rigs, construction, etc. With the exception of teaching in your examples, nobody really cares that there exist jobs that tend to attract one gender over another. What matters is if the better jobs only attract one gender.
- csixty4 13y agoThere was a big push to get more men in nursing a decade ago. Hospitals offered big hiring bonuses and 100% tuition reimbursement after a couple years' employment. There were billboards on the side of the expressway talking about how it wasn't just a woman's job. I don't know how successful it was, but I would have jumped on it if I wasn't close to finishing a CS degree already.