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I've only known one male nurse. It was my dad. He worked at 3 different nursing homes and it was the same way for him.Dad made more than female nurses b/c he was willing + able to work Baylor hours over weekend and do overtime. Mom had me on weekends. https://t.co/4iHNMD0nrG https://t.co/nw68ZxhxcC https://t.co/HGHrJf03Ug
The nursing profession is one of most heavily female biased fields we have. Part of the pay gap here is due to childcare concerns. The entire reason Baylor hours exist is due to nursing shortages, (particularly on weekends when kids aren't at school).I hated not seeing my dad.
Flight attendants are also gender biased because of a fucked up artifact of history. https://t.co/mbXrrWRl4R https://t.co/5OFTeSfROk
Typist and receptionists jobs are also horribly biased. It's a huge problem with a strange history.I'm not the least surprised to see a statistical machine learning system extrapolate underlying biases we have as a society.https://t.co/gjVmIUZP4D
If you want an AI to depict men, ask it for jobs that are dangerous.For some reason these are also jobs that require you to be way from home for long periods of time.How much of this is due to biases around childcare expectations? No one mentions this.https://t.co/Gb8rRHqnmP
I always see people wringing their hands and bending over backwards looking for evolutionary theories for why men dominate the dangerous jobs. https://t.co/p4EEg06VZpBut no one ever stops to think about childcare norms being a player.
When you see the childcare undercurrent here, it shifts the perspective on what is going on.Historically receptionists and Typist were typically unmarried women who without a husband after WWII killed so many. Flight attendants were specifically asked to be unmarred women!
Children Minding!"By the mid-nineteenth century, teaching was considered a natural extension of a woman’s caretaking nature. Teaching was also one of the few respectable jobs a woman could have, [...] the job afforded women independence before marriage." https://t.co/pF92Wcj840
What is really strange is that in teaching as a profession, there was actually a bit of a push toward more equality, but it somehow started slipping?https://t.co/0rKDu5qNSh https://t.co/vGMSbm2E4z
We live in a society.https://t.co/kfZN96kQYF
An interesting observation by @LorentzianJelly:"in the distant past, most nursing was taken care of by devout religious, who had taken vows of celibacy, and so had no family of their own anyway"When did this become a "nun's job"?https://t.co/w7OaxDOntE
I know there's supposedly a roman thing going on here, but that might be misunderstood?https://t.co/fi50w3cvRhAre the celibacy traditions a more recent tradition, unrelated to the antinatalist beliefs in antiquity? https://t.co/fWh6xWhynv https://t.co/C836WBpWiA
