Three Kinds of Careers based on Sex
Recently, the gap between certain jobs which were qualified only for the men or women in the past is getting smaller. For example, imagine the situation when someone says "I am a nurse" and we do not know whether this person is a man or woman. In the past, there is a high possibility that this person is a woman because almost the whole nurse are woman at that time. But, nowadays, a lot of men are trying to be nurses, and the number of these men nurses is increasing rapidly, so we can not assure this person's sex. As we can see in this one simple example of nurse, world of career keeps changing very fast. However, there are still some differences between what men can do better than women and vice versa. So today, I am going to categorize careers for three parts depending on sex and explain some examples of these three categories.
First of all, there are some parts of careers which men can perform their own role better than women actually do such as construction workers, taxi drivers or the workers of distribution center. These jobs have characteristics that require exhaustion of physical strength of workers. Imagine the site of constructing tall buildings and structures. In this site, the laborer have to carry heavy subsidiary materials, go up and down a lot of long staircases, and run around the large building sites. Or, you can also think about the day of taxi drivers. They have to sit in narrow space in the car and drive all day for their passengers. The workers of distribution center have important roles of carrying customers' packages which are sometimes so heavy or fragile that they need a particular attention. Generally, these jobs are mostly qualified for men socially. So, these is a special area where men can do better than women do because of the differences between men and women.
Secondly, there are some parts of careers which women can perform their own role better then men do such as kindergarten teachers, nurses or a social worker. At the kindergartens where are full of young mischievous children, teachers should take care of these children as following them. Similarly, fundamental role of nurses is to attend their sick and ill patients at the hospital and that of social workers is also to look after social minorities by being a companion to talk with or doing certain things which minorities can not do. Generally, these jobs are mostly qualified for women socially. As we can see these examples, the part that women can perform much better than men generally do have characteristics related with the ability of volunteering for someone and taking care of them.
Finally, there are some parts that do not have a clear separation of who can perform far better their roles between men and women. Jobs such as middle, high school teachers or chefs can be categorized as this part. These jobs are not clearly divided as jobs for men or jobs for women today. According to my aunt, who is now working as a history teacher at high school, there is little gap between the number of men and women among her colleagues at work and also that of their abilities as teachers. Instead, she said that the ability of teaching knowledge to students is depending on individual, not on sexes.
In this writing, I wrote my own three categorizations of careers depending on sex. Although not every careers can be defined clearly by these three parts I explained above, I think that my explanation can be the most general categorization when dividing careers. I hope that all readers could share various opinions about careers through this writing.
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