> The big shift in the labor market has been away from the kinds of jobs which could be done largely through physical strength, and/or with relatively low levels of education. Stereotypically, the guy with maybe a high school diploma could come out and get a pretty good union job in a factory. And those jobs are just becoming scarcer and scarcer because of these changes in the economy.
Given the level of social and institutional focus on girls in STEM, this is only getting worse in the future for boys as they grow. They are not given the same level of motivation and support.
Over the past 12 months, health care alone added 390,000 jobs, more than in the economy overall, making up for job losses elsewhere.
Health care is what the market demands, so that's where the jobs get created. If those are framed as women's work, then women will get trained for them and women will get the jobs.
TFA doesn't break down how much of that is nursing and how much is administrative. Both are coded as "women's work", for different reasons.
Even aside from the employment benefits, it would be very helpful to stop thinking that men are doctors and women are nurses. But I've also never seen a male receptionist at a doctor's office.
YMMV based on the role, but some healthcare roles are highly stressful plus you're exposed to all sorts of infectious diseases. A more charitable interpretation is that these new new role openings are in response to high turnover.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 32.6 ms ] threadAnd some people still ask kids "who do you want to become when you grow up?"
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1133586707/boys-men-labor-for...
> The big shift in the labor market has been away from the kinds of jobs which could be done largely through physical strength, and/or with relatively low levels of education. Stereotypically, the guy with maybe a high school diploma could come out and get a pretty good union job in a factory. And those jobs are just becoming scarcer and scarcer because of these changes in the economy.
Over the past 12 months, health care alone added 390,000 jobs, more than in the economy overall, making up for job losses elsewhere.
Health care is what the market demands, so that's where the jobs get created. If those are framed as women's work, then women will get trained for them and women will get the jobs.
TFA doesn't break down how much of that is nursing and how much is administrative. Both are coded as "women's work", for different reasons.
Even aside from the employment benefits, it would be very helpful to stop thinking that men are doctors and women are nurses. But I've also never seen a male receptionist at a doctor's office.