Genders and jobs

zazu13 · December 2014

Inspired by the UO discussion. What kind of career do (did) you have?

zazu13 · December 2014

I work as an interpreter for the deaf. It is female dominated and a high percentage of the males are gay. I think that is typical of "helper" type professions. I also teach in this field and average 0-2 males in a cohort of 12 students.

Tferr02 · December 2014

I was a bank teller, very female dominated

lcr23 · December 2014

I work in marketing which is female dominated but work for a software company that is definitely male dominated.

chichi589 · December 2014

Ss- i work in auto insurance & while my team that I closely work with is very female dominated overall management is very male dominated.

*sparky* · December 2014

I am an accountant which is a fairly gender neutral career choice. But at my level (Director) and above it is definitely male dominated. A lot of the women I know have stopped working due to the ridiculous hours accountants tend to work. Every man I work with has a SAHW who handles everything at home.

AmberLiz99 · December 2014

I was in government HR and the headquarters level, which is pretty well mixed.

My weekend job is also pretty well mixed,( historical tour guide. )

UnofficiallyLO · December 2014

I was in the brokerage industry- financial advisors were mostly males and assistants mostly females. A few exceptions for both but not many (in my office).

janellemj928 · December 2014

I work with roughly 10 guys in a 50-60 person office. Four of them are the CEO, CFO, and two Assistant Controllers. The others are our IT department.

hlm184 · December 2014

Ss - I work in two fields. Education is female dominated, but I am also a firearms trainer which is male dominated.

vettymama · December 2014

More females in vet school but more males in solely large animal practice.

eireyes · December 2014

Engineering - very male dominated.

Slb22 · December 2014

Hospitality industry. Mostly women and gay men

Liane28 · December 2014

Business Development in an engineering firm -super male dominated.

bootsiebabe · December 2014

Lawyer. I said mostly male, but it seems that my specific niche is pretty evenly split between men and women, which is nice. 5/6 judges that my cases go before are men.

ksulli · December 2014

*sparky* said:
I am an accountant which is a fairly gender neutral career choice. But at my level (Director) and above it is definitely male dominated. A lot of the women I know have stopped working due to the ridiculous hours accountants tend to work. Every man I work with has a SAHW who handles everything at home.

So very true. I'm an accountant as well, but left public practice when my 1st was 8 months old. I probably could have made it work if I stayed in my old office and working on the teams that knew, trusted & respected me. But we moved when I was pregnant, and my new office didn't have many clients in 'my' industry, and I didn't want to start over building my reputation while learning a new industry, so I left for a fortune 250 company and work in financial reporting. Females up to the director level, but CAO/CFO are male, with wives who hold down the home-front.

Holljade · December 2014

I work with a lot of women actually. I'd say it's kind of even.

The CEO of my company is a womAn (not that I think it makes any difference but just saying...)

speechie517 · December 2014

Speech-Language Pathologist in the school setting is virtually all women, SLP in general is a female-dominated field, but if I was working in the rehab or hospital setting, the workplaces would be more evenly split.

kmos816 · December 2014

My previous job was in the brokerage industry- very male dominated! I changed jobs last year, and now I'm in the 401k industry and at my company it's mostly women in my division- it's a weird change.

edoliesmom · December 2014

I wouldn't call it a career, but I worked at a daycare. All women. There was a branch that dealt with teens, and men worked there (my husband being one of them), and they had a summer program that employed a lot of young men too. When we were short-staffed, male employees from different branches were able to come and help with the 3 and 4 year old classes, but not in a class where diapers had to be changed, and they couldn't take anyone to the bathroom.

LizChad09 · December 2014

Slb22 said:

Hospitality industry. Mostly women and gay men

This. I was an event planner so this definitely holds try for my dept, however most of the rest of the males in the hotel were straight.

momofmanyinthemitten · December 2014

Teacher, female dominated, but at the high school level, which is pretty equal.

Roufi · December 2014

I'm an interior designer (mostly women) working for an architectural technician (getting more even, still mainly men) and work with architects (more and more women but partners almost exclusively male. The one woman who runs her own firm that we work with only got where she is by being a mega hardass and has no children). To top it all off, all our company's franchises are owned and run by men, and every construction meeting or site I've been to, I was the only woman. We tend to get the backgroud/office jobs.

olenkapdx · December 2014

I work for a state government agency. It's pretty balanced here. I work in the software development department where you'd expect it to be male dominated, but even there it's pretty equal; there are just as many female programmers as men and they are treated the same as far as I can tell. And my boss is encouraging me strongly to learn to code (I'm a tech writer, not a programmer, currently.) I have to say it's a pretty healthy environment.

I did experience a sexual harassment incident at my workplace a couple of years ago. One of the old fart male programmers (now retired, thank god) made a sexual comment toward me in a meeting. EVERYBODY in the meeting reported him to my boss, who dealt with it immediately.

Keckers · December 2014

Nursing... Female dominated but more men are now perusing this career. In my specialty, the nursing staff is 100% female, but only 2 (out of 9) physicians that deliver at my hospital are female.

RedDawnsRevenge · December 2014

As an ER nurse I work in a very equal department for being such a small hospital. In general however nursing is a very female dominated field.

Teresa1896 · December 2014

edoliesmom said:
When we were short-staffed, male employees from different branches were able to come and help with the 3 and 4 year old classes, but not in a class where diapers had to be changed, and they couldn't take anyone to the bathroom.

Is there a specific reason why men weren't allowed to change diapers or take kids to the bathroom? Because that is the most blatantly sexist and ridiculous policy I've ever heard.

zazu13 · December 2014

Teresa1896 said:

edoliesmom said:
When we were short-staffed, male employees from different branches were able to come and help with the 3 and 4 year old classes, but not in a class where diapers had to be changed, and they couldn't take anyone to the bathroom.
Is there a specific reason why men weren't allowed to change diapers or take kids to the bathroom? Because that is the most blatantly sexist and ridiculous policy I've ever heard.

Given the statistics for child sex offenders being predominantly male I think the policy makes sense. I would feel more comfortable with an adult female stranger helping my kid in the potty than a man.

Teresa1896 · December 2014

zazu13 said:

Teresa1896 said:

edoliesmom said:
When we were short-staffed, male employees from different branches were able to come and help with the 3 and 4 year old classes, but not in a class where diapers had to be changed, and they couldn't take anyone to the bathroom.
Is there a specific reason why men weren't allowed to change diapers or take kids to the bathroom? Because that is the most blatantly sexist and ridiculous policy I've ever heard.
Given the statistics for child sex offenders being predominantly male I think the policy makes sense. I would feel more comfortable with an adult female stranger helping my kid in the potty than a man.

That's just absurd. Not all men are pedophiles, and the assumption that any man would molest a kid is offensive. Organizations that have policies like that are just perpetuating the belief that men can't be trusted with kids and will perp on them, and that's just wrong.

ETA: sorry, hot button issue for me.

deidremaria · December 2014

I voted equal but now realize that I should have chosen female dominated. I'm a quality assurance specialist and when I think on it, I've only ever monitored one male rep in the 3 years I've been doing this job. I'm also the office manager which I believe is mostly female doninant.

hordol · December 2014

As an elementary teacher I am in a female dominated field, but when I taught middle school it was pretty equal, maybe even slightly tipped toward male dominated.

zazu13 · December 2014

Teresa1896 said:

When we were short-staffed, male employees from different branches were able to come and help with the 3 and 4 year old classes, but not in a class where diapers had to be changed, and they couldn't take anyone to the bathroom.
Is there a specific reason why men weren't allowed to change diapers or take kids to the bathroom? Because that is the most blatantly sexist and ridiculous policy I've ever heard.
Given the statistics for child sex offenders being predominantly male I think the policy makes sense. I would feel more comfortable with an adult female stranger helping my kid in the potty than a man.
That's just absurd. Not all men are pedophiles, and the assumption that any man would molest a kid is offensive. Organizations that have policies like that are just perpetuating the belief that men can't be trusted with kids and will perp on them, and that's just wrong. ETA: sorry, hot button issue for me.

No need to be sorry. Your opinion is valid. I definitely don't think all men are pedophiles or that being male automatically means they would molest a child. However, I still would feel more comfortable with a female helping my daughters in the potty. Organizations with these policies are protecting themselves from liability. My kids don't go to daycare, but if they did, I would prefer only their regular care providers to do these sorts of things. I will teach them as they grow who they can trust and I want them to know that it is not OK for anyone to remove their clothing other than people we have talked about they can trust (mom/dad, grandma, doctor if mom/dad are present, etc.) It sucks, but our society has demonstrated you cannot be overly cautious and you cannot give all people the benefit of the doubt, unfortunately.

Rrrrrachel · December 2014

Real estate appraisal is super male dominated.

spano41 · December 2014

I said ss... I'm a scientist. In the bio sciences i think there are actually more women that enter but it's so demanding and not family friendly that it ends up being mostly men who get tenure.

deidremaria · December 2014

Jessieann1020 said:
I work in a call center (wireless service) and it is pretty even. Our technical support group has more men but my department and general customer service are pretty even. It's very equal among our leadership with a few women holding CEO type positions.

Our COO is a woman among all men holding similar positions and she's a bitch. I can see why though. There are certain things that other chief officers get to do that she doesn't. All the chief officers (as well as the call center) are in Texas and Utah and they've all visitors here except her.