Do we still need to say “This was a listener request?” It is! A listener who goes by Jokey asked us about this on our Facebook page, pointing out how difficult it is for men to be accepted in jobs like early childhood education. So we took a look!

• New word alert! “Occupational segregation.”
• Teachers: Lots of men in higher ed and upper grades, and nearly all women in elementary ed
• Firefighting and the particular challenges to women in that field
• Women in the military
• Dental hygienists and other occupations overwhelmingly held by women
• Engineering managers and other occupations overwhelmingly held by men
• Cause and effect in these trends
• Myths about women entering the workplace in the 60s
• Pay gaps
• Massage therapists, hair people and industries that have shifted in terms of gender balance
• Women moving into “male” jobs as “feminist,” vs. men moving into “female” jobs as “deviant”
• Male nurses and the perception of being gay
• The TV stereotype of male nurses as failed doctors
• A recent “30 Rock” and a joke therein
• The BEM Sex Roles Inventory and women managers
• A non-revelatory revelation about literature class
• Listener mail! From James, about Christmas creep. And the Tim Minchin song “White Wine in the Sun”

My research:

• Anker, Richard. “Theories of Occupational Segregation by Sex: An Overview.” International Labor Organization. 1997.
• Bagilhole, Barbara and Simon Cross. “It Never Struck Me as Female’: Investigating Men’s Entry into Female-dominated Occupations.” Journal of Gender Studies. Vol. 15, No. 1, 2006.
• Harding, Thomas. “The Construction of Men who Are Nurses as Gay.” Journal of Advanced Nursing. Vol. 66, No. 6.
• Kalantari, Behrooz. “The Influence of Social Values and Childhood Socialization on Occupational Gender Segregation and Wage Disparity.” Public Personnel Management. “ Vol. 21, No. 2, Summer 2012.
• Lipinska-Grobelny, Agnieska and Katarzyna Wasiak. “Job Satisfaction and Gender Idenitty of Women Managers and Non-Managers.” International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health. 2010.
• Moller, Stephanie and Huiping Li. “Parties, Unions, Policies and Occupational Sex Segregation in the United States.” Social Forces 87(3). Match 2009
• Oswald, Debra L. “Gender Stereotypes and Women’s Reports of Liking and Ability in Traditionally Masculine and Feminine Occupations.” Psychology of Women Quarterly, 32 (2008).
• Webber, Gretchen and Christine Williams. “Part-Time Work and the Gender Division of Labor. Qualitative Sociology. 2008.
• Wells, Thomas. “Changes in Occupational Sex Segregation in the 1980s and 1990s.” Social Science Quarterly. Vol. 80, No. 2. 1999.

Holly’s research:

• With More Equity, More Sweat
• Shifting gender roles: at home and in the workplace
• As Millennials reject gender roles, but embrace marriage, they’re changing society
• Times Are Changing

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