Quick opinion question

[angelz4u39]

Does anybody believe that there is jobs ONLY for women and/or men? For instance, should a woman be a construction worker? Tell me what you think!!

[princessofgab]

Why not? unless it's a job that needs a man's equipment.

[cloudsoup]

i definitely do not think any job is limited to
gender when you look at the grand scheme.
individually, can a man do something better
than i can, in the workforce? yes, just as much
as i can do something else better than he...

take the male nurse for example, you know?

just because we don't see women plumbers
or men secretaries, doesn't mean they aren't
there. they're everywhere we don't normally look  

[ammielo23]

I think a male or female can do any job.  It all depends on what interest they have, what work ethic they have, and what they can put up with if they are not in the "norm" because you know that if a female is working with almost all men, the men will typically give the female some kind of harassment just as if a male was working in an all female environment.  The harassment just might not be as harsh.  I wish I could remember the name of the movie that this question reminds me of, but it was about a female that went to work in the mines and she was harassed big time.  Not saying that all men do that kind of stuff, because there are other males out there that will stick up for a woman and vice versa.  That's just my opinion.

[devideddi]

I believe that both men and women should have the same job opportunities.  I also believe that there are some things that women are better at naturally and the same for men. 

[pshah1991]

Idealistically, just all men and women should have the same job oppertunities.

However, the large inequality balance exists in one area: Professional Sports.

So yes we've become a LITTLE better by adding the WNBA, but NBA players make MUCH MUCH MUCH more than than WNBA players.

A women can still not enter the NFL, or the MLB. This is mainly beacuse of Biological differences (Strength differences, weight differences, ect)

So we will REALLY reach equality when Women have the oppertunity to enter Major league sports, and get paid the same amount as men do. But whether this is ever going to be possible beacuse of differences in Biological strength, is another story.

[jasoneaton]

With regards to professional sports, there isn't any real way to "fix" that, short of promoting a new sport that makes use of the natural physical endowments of women, compared to men.

What I mean to say is that nobody "decides" what sports are popular. Even when women play the same sport as men, such as the WNBA, it's not as popular because men are, on average, and at the pinnacle, simply faster, stronger, and tougher than women, on average. That makes the games more exciting and more fun to watch. Since women identify with women, they are more likely to want to watch the women's games, but there aren't enough women who are that interested in the sport to counterbalance the men who aren't interested in watching.

In the sports that are currently popular involve lots of hard hitting action, and men are simply better, on average, at providing that sort of entertainment.

There exist leagues for women for pretty much every sport out there, at the weekender and amateur levels, in most places. It's just that the economy of sports doesn't support professional level coverage without professional level crowd draw.

There's professional figure skating, dance, gymnastics, etc, that could be expanded beyond the current format, perhaps, but that isn't confrontational enough for most people.

Danika Patrick is doing good things for women in racing, maybe more women will get into that. And I think the Tampa Bay Lightning had a female Goalie when they first started up. There are female fighters in the MMA world, not UFC yet, but Elite XC and I think Pride feature female competitors. The wrestling Divas are doing pretty good, but that's more entertainment than competition.

I guess what I'm getting at is that there is and has been plenty of opportunity, but nobody has done well enough yet for it to really "catch", and it's hard for women to compete in sports that are designed around men's natural physical advantages. Some rare women are capable of playing at that level, but not enough.

Unless someone invests a pile of money into creating and promoting some new sporting venue that becomes popular beyond anyone's wildest imaginings, I don't see women's sports coming anywhere near as successful as NFL, MLB, etc.

[mgarmstrong]

You need to be physically and mentally able to perform the work.  Your gender sould not matter.

[lbeery]

I don't think there is much a man or women can't do, but, let's face it, there are traditional roles (oohh, that will probably cause some heat) that are better suited to one group or the other just due to physical, emotional issues.

[mlainez]

Does anybody believe that there is jobs ONLY for women and/or men? For instance, should a woman be a construction worker? Tell me what you think!!

I strongly believe in (EOE) Equal Opportunity Employment!

[mgint]

I think anyone should be able to try any job

[djmiller1124]

anything that a man can do a woman can do

[djmiller1124]

i think that women have definately gone above and beyond and have proved that there is no doubt to their abilities

[dmecham56]

I don't know if there are jobs for only women or men, but I do know that in my field a woman will get hired over a man at least 80% of the time. It seems to me like it is reverse sex descrimination

[lbeery]

Reverse discrimination is a true fact of life. The pendulum swings for every form of unfairness and hopefully stops in the middle.  Nice to have choices about what we want to do if we are willing to find ways around discrimination.  The more people who are able to overcome it, the easier it is for those who follow.