This is an interesting post about women working in male-dominated fields. The theory is that if women all got together and went into electrical engineering or automotive repair for example, then about ten years later people would be talking about how it was a “soft field” and it would pay proportionately less than other fields.
What do you think about women in male-dominated fields? Let us know in the comments below!
I think people should go into the fields they are interested in and show aptitude for, not worry about if it’s masculine or feminine.
Unfortunately the game is currently rigged to create endless retail-consumer proles, not dreamers of dreams made manifest.
We waste SO much human potential to the hierarchy game. Is sad.
You should be respected for you scientific intelligence regardless of whether you have a vagina or penis. Why should it be any other way? Oh oppression, subjugation, sexism, patriarchy etc. yeah
Not so fun fact: This is why librarianship is heavily female-dominated today. Melvil Dewey, of Dewey Decimal System fame, deliberately hired women as a cost-cutting measure (as well as giving him plenty of targets to lust after and paw at because he was a total sleeze when it came to women.) Whatever his motives, though, he did open the field to women – before Dewey, it was generally accepted that women were too weak and intellectually inferior to be able to manage hauling heavy books around, shelving correctly, etc. And then here comes Dewey in his major library system innovating librarianship and the next thing you knew almost all librarians are female, and getting crappy pay and very little respect from the guys who hold the pursestrings.