Futher, There are many occupations with 25 percent or less men. Those with
over 500,000 workers are:
Secretaries
Cashiers
Registered nurses
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants
Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks
Elementary school teachers
Waiters and Waitresses
Receptionists
Administrative support occupations, Not elsewhere classified
Source: http://www.dol.gov/dol/wb/public/wb_pubs/20lead96.htm
I would that we encourage men into these fields with the same enthusiam that
we encourage women into the fields in which they are underrepresented.
I find it interesting to look at this set of lists, since I think their is so
much more impact on gender equality to be had from concentrating on these
sets, merely because it affects so many more people.
Weverka quoting his UK friend:
> > Girls have been doing better than boys for about 25 years,
> > but the gap is increasing more and more and the impact
> > is inevitable.
> > The result? The future is female. The message
> > from employers is clear; no qualifications, no job.
Linda Purrington wrote:
> Purrington: We have not yet seen any reason to believe that the male
> control of top jobs will be ceded to female achievement; in fact, the
> hullaballoo against affirmative action is intended to ensure precisely
> the opposite. The fact that women are passing the bar in record--even
> majority numbers--means little if they are shunted into paralegal clerk
> positions and shouldered out of important legal work and political
> positions. At present 1 percent of school superintendents in the US are
> female; and, again, I point to the Senate.
Are more women than men passing the bar exam? Will we respond to this with
Affirmative Action programs to get more men into law schools? Do you have a
cite on how many female lawyers who've passed the bar become paralegals?
Wanta guess how many of the Senators from my state are female? If 100% of
mine are female does that mean California-male interests are not represented
in the Senate?
> Title IX was passed in 1972,
> and has never been enforced. I'm delighted with your stats; they prove
> the nonenforcment of gender equity laws and the systematic
> disadvantaging of girls like nothing else could. Now let's see your
> stats for the US.
I don't see how this follows. How does the better performance of girls in
schools prove discrimination against girls?
> Myra and David Sadker published FAILING AT FAIRNESS: HOW AMERICA'S
> SCHOOLS CHEAT GIRLS--Scribner's 1994; the American Association of
> University Women published HOW SCHOOLS SHORTCHANGE GIRLS shortly before
> that. An excellent source for research on the situation is the Wellesley
> Center for Research on Women (Wellesley, Massachusetts).
Thanks. I will go to the Stanford library this week and have a look.
regards,
-Robert
Robert Weverka <weverka@optivision.com>