week 6 response 3 436
Hello Class,
Gender stereotyping has greatly influenced occupational concentration leading to low earnings. The aggressive and daring behaviors have contributed to men engage in police and firefighting careers (Marger,2014). On the other hand, women's nurturing and compassionate character traits have pushed them to pursue nursing and teaching professions. The engineering courses are mainly dominated by male students as female students have an excellent comprehension of mathematics and science subjects. The engineering schools face a great challenge in recruiting female students because society considers engineering a male profession (del Río & Alonso-Villar, 2015). Hence, stereotypes have caused low earnings in highly concentrated occupations.
Gender stereotypes have affected the selection of careers. For example, in the automobile and real estate sectors, the salespersons are mainly males. This is because society considers men to be more knowledgeable about automobiles than women. On the other hand, society views ladies as having less understanding about homes than men (del Río & Alonso-Villar, 2015). Hence, career selections have made real estate and automobiles to be male gender-dominated.
Stereotyping has negative effects on men. Due to gender stereotypes, men who pursue female-considered careers traditionally seem to have lowered their social status. However, ladies who undertake male-dominated courses become highly respected in society(Marger,2014). Hence, most men are afraid to pursue female-dominated jobs.
Over the past few years, men have embraced the traditionally viewed professions, and women have become experts in male-dominated occupations. The desire to have a fulfilling job, economic hardships, and collapse of the cultural stereotypes have influenced men to take jobs such as kindergarten teachers and nurses. On the other hand, the desire to gain societal power has pushed women to take managerial positions in organizations (Grusky & Kricheli-Katz, 2012). Hence, men and women engage in their passionate jobs.
Ivory Parker
Dr. Chapman and Class,
In modern society occupational concentrations have crossed over the societal line for what has usually been accepted as gender roles in the workforce, e.g. female combat soldiers and male nurses, has changed much throughout the 19th, 20th, and 21st Century. Throughout human history, and in all societies, work has been divided along sexual lines, or gender roles, where some roles are assigned to men and others to women (Marger, 2013). However, this isn’t the case anymore, or is it?
Our assigned reading explains that gender stereotypes sustain and reinforce occupational clustering; therefore, if it is assumed that men are more aggressive and daring by nature, police officers and firefighters become “natural” male occupations instead of a female-dominated occupation (Marger, 2013). It is this kind of thinking in society that has brought about many stereotypes and stigma against women, and or minorities groups for that matter.
Table 11.2 (Marger 2013) of our assigned reading gives insight into the changes that have taken place from 1983 to 2010 and one would have to be blind to not see the stark changes in gender roles being changed as women are today have become mechanics, firefighters, carpenters, airplane pilots, truckers, police officers, combat soldiers, and lawyers to name a few of occupation that has traditionally been filled by men. The reason for the change, I believe, started when the United States started looking to actually Govern an equal and fair state with liberty and justice for all. It has been a long road, however, after the civil rights movement of the 1960s in conjunction with the feminist movement, brought much light and change to inequality in our society; thus opening the door for women to fill positions that were traditionally occupied by men. Thoughts?
Blessings,
Francisco
References,
Marger, M. (2013). Social inequality: Patterns and processes (6th ed.). NY: McGraw-Hill