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Yeah, top jobs where women dominate are all super high prestige, elementary school teachers, nursing/health aides, secretarial, retail, food service... :)
by RockyMcNuts 12y ago
Yeah, top jobs where women dominate are all super high prestige, elementary school teachers, nursing/health aides, secretarial, retail, food service... :)
- malandrew 12y agoYou failed to include all the blue collar low-prestige jobs where men are far more common, like construction, factory jobs and warehouse work. For every profession that is low prestige and largely female, there is another profession that low prestige and largely male.
- RockyMcNuts 12y agoAnd for every high-prestige profession dominated by men, there is one dominated by women, natch.
- brighteyes 12y agoSounds like sarcasm? If so, it's unwarranted. For example, clinical psychology is high-prestige and high-paying, and is dominated by women. Medical research and more generally the biosciences is another (smaller majority, though). http://www.sheheroes.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Percent-of-BAs-in-STEM-fields-received-by-women.jpg http://www.sheheroes.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Percent-...
- vonmoltke 12y agoRetail and food service are not dominated by either gender. Early childhood education has a serious bias against men. Due to social stigmas, parents of both genders are generally more comfortable leaving their young children in the care of a woman rather than a man. I think most nursing jobs have roughly the same level of prestige as most engineering jobs. It just doesn't look that way here because this place is hyper-focused on the small subset that are high prestige.
- chaostheory 12y agoYou're missing the forest for the trees (assuming your assumptions are correct). Business (executives, secretaries) is more respectable than IT (programmers, tech support). I would argue that nurses and teachers have higher prestige than a programmer or engineer in most parts of the country. (Let's not confuse salary with prestige)
- hyperpape 12y agoI can't prove you wrong, but I find the idea implausible. Perhaps it's because a good half of my friends are PhDs.
- johngalt 12y agoStill comparing apples to oranges. The most common job for women is secretary (which generated countless headlines). The most common job for men is truck driver not programmer. People always focus on CEOs and company founders being all men, but no one brings up all the people working construction, pest control, mining etc...
- colmvp 12y agoPharmacists are paid extremely well and have a higher representation of women (56.3) than men.
- lucidrains 12y agoActually, Pharmacy is going to become the new Law. http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119634/pharmacy-school-crisis-why-good-jobs-are-drying http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119634/pharmacy-school-cr...
- facepalm 12y agoMore women than men study medicine, so for example your "nursing/health aides" example really conveys the wrong picture.