Does the "skewed" gender ratio in caretaking and language jobs (where there are significantly more women than men, sometimes by a ratio of 90-10) indicate that there is an anti-male bias in those communities?
You mean like the fact that men are far likelier to be assumed to be abusive, or that their abuses are at least assumed to cause more harm?
There is indeed an anti-male bias in the caregiving professions (and in the communities that develop around them), but because the jobs in question generally have low pay, long hours, and other poor working conditions, we don't hear about men struggling to be accepted in these jobs any more than we hear about women struggling to secure jobs in garbage collection.
And no, neither the existence of bias in other fields, nor a lack of struggle against it, serve to justify the existence of the bias in question.
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Re: Gender ratio and gender preferences
Date: 2014-03-26 04:55 am (UTC)You mean like the fact that men are far likelier to be assumed to be abusive, or that their abuses are at least assumed to cause more harm?
There is indeed an anti-male bias in the caregiving professions (and in the communities that develop around them), but because the jobs in question generally have low pay, long hours, and other poor working conditions, we don't hear about men struggling to be accepted in these jobs any more than we hear about women struggling to secure jobs in garbage collection.
And no, neither the existence of bias in other fields, nor a lack of struggle against it, serve to justify the existence of the bias in question.