Blog # 12

Occupational segregation still exists because we have but emphasis on gender in our society especially when it comes to careers. Society presents male dominated jobs as those that are hard working, heavy lifting, odd hour type jobs. Women jobs are supposed to be those that work in offices or in schools as teachers, like a nine-to-five job. This type of gender socialization will lead people to certain types of professions that fit their gender and there schedule at home, no matter if they hate their job. Women are not generally know to work odd hours because they would not look like a good mother to the society because they have odd hours that does not allow them to take their kids to school, or help them with the homework. It may also make the man look bad if their wife is making more money than he is if she is working in a male dominant career.
Women are not generally encouraged to work as police officers, or in prisons or as security guards, even as construction workers. These professional are not welcoming to women because of the hours that will possibly interfere with their time with their kids. Society does not always accept the father being home while the mother is at work. The gender socialization is not only used when it comes to careers but also for in a family sense because there is a man and a woman in a family. The women are supposed to stay at home with the kids and help them with school work, but when they take on untraditional jobs they are looked as women that are trying to change the future and end the segregation and wage gaps that are present.

Women do gain advantages when they begin to break into untraditional careers specifically male dominate careers. The biggest advantage is that they would be able to make more money because usually male dominant jobs pay more because of the longer hours and difficulty of the work. The can also have great satisfaction because the succeeded against the odds. Not many women are able to get into those jobs even if they want to, also many women don’t try to get into those jobs because they do not think they will make it into that field. This allows women to have faith that they can enter into different fields with higher pay and have a job that they are interested in. Men can also have many advantages from this if they allow themselves to see these advantages. They can definitely learn from women, just the same as women will learn from men. They should look at these women as privileged women because they were able to better themselves and able to beat the odds.