Female Waiters

In many restaurants today numerous people can see that there are more waitresses instead of waiters. “In other words, waiting on tables is defined as typical ‘women’s work’ because women perform it and because the work activities are considered ‘feminine’” (Hall, 329). Why? Why is this position considered something that only women should be preforming? I think that waiting on tables and being a server has been considered mainly done by women for a long period of time based on the research that has been done. By using these commonplace examples, interviews, and scholarly articles I will prove that waitressing is considered a female’s job because they are considered friendlier than men and easily sexually objectified. Normally when I go to a …show more content…
“Since this restaurant is heavily sport based, I think we have more female waitresses than male waiters. We have maybe two male waiters, I think, but mostly we have only females serving our customers” (Spause). Mostly accommodating to the male population sports bars tend to have strictly females greeting and serving customers. Now if the customers treat the waitresses right is a different story. “He slapped my friends’ ass on her way to leave and said what he would do if we weren’t at work, and how beautiful we were” (Spause). From personal experience, almost every place I have been to have females being servers and sadly they face this treatment because of the way they dress in these sexually objectifying environments. “I get better tips as a female verses a male because we wear t-shirts that are tighter but I still love the job and most of the time the tips are great” (Risley). Females are mainly in this industry to make money, and I think it gives them a certain advantage over males because of these reasons. Although females face certain struggles with sexual objectification in the workplace, they still partake in their job because they love it and because they make a