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Grex Homme Item 65: Are there still typical men's or women's jobs?
Entered by keesan on Tue Feb 25 22:29:22 UTC 2003:

Women used to be discriminated against in many areas of employment and were
expected to be typists, servants (cleaning and child care), elementary school
teachers, or nurses, or better yet stay-at-home parents.  Now most of the
recent graduate lawyers, doctors, dentists, and even musicians seems to be
women.  What jobs are still uncommon for women?  (I have seen women playing
string bass but not tuba, maybe due to the need for greater lung capacity).
What jobs are still mostly restricted to women?  Are there many men working
as nurses yet?  Women composers or conductors?  Women driving trucks?  (They
drive our local buses).  Men working in preschools?

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#1 of 6 by eprom on Wed Feb 26 03:33:44 2003:

hmm....

mid-wifes, wet nurses, baby sitters are predominatly held by women still.

I remember back in the late 80's seeing a Flintstones episode where Fred
complains to Wilma how easy her job is, and she complains about how easy 
his job is. By the end of the show both "realize" how tough each others
job is and all is well again.

The message of the show seemed to be that women should stay at home and 
men should earn the pay check. Maybe I'm just reading too much into a
silly cartoon.....I wonder If they still air that one?
 
BTW...whatever happened to they guy that filed a lawsuit against Hooters?

#2 of 6 by keesan on Wed Feb 26 05:03:46 2003:

What percentage of recent graduates in engineering or computer sciences are
women?

#3 of 6 by md on Wed Feb 26 11:52:16 2003:

How the hell should I know?

#4 of 6 by md on Wed Feb 26 11:58:46 2003:

[Sorry if I sounded snippy.  It's just that I cannot possibly imagine 
the point of asking such a question in the Homme cf on Grex.  Or any 
other cf on Grex, for that matter.  The likelihood of chancing upon a 
statistician versed in such things is nil, while the information 
resources on the Internet are staggering.  Which is a nice way of say, 
if you're interested in it, go look it up and come back and tell us.  
If it takes you as long as ten minutes, you're doing something wrong.]

#5 of 6 by keesan on Wed Feb 26 14:33:18 2003:

There are people on grex who have recently studied computer sciences or know
people who have done so or at least are students themselves.  I was not
singling you out to answer this question.  

We saw a film from the fifties in which all the jurors were middle aged white
men.  When did women first get to be jurors?  It was some time before 1980.

#6 of 6 by separ085 on Fri Oct 31 19:23:08 2003:

come to think of it. women are taking over all the high ranking plases in this
fucking world. won't be surprised if they kick us to mars

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