When someone asks the average person about a surgeon, mechanic or a drill sergeant from the military, more likely than not they will instantaneously picture a man as one of those. For years we have held stereotypes about ethnicity, gender, age and so on and believe in most of them due to being a traditional belief for centuries. There have been IAT tests about hidden biases done by multiple scientist/professors to reveal to people about their biases and stereotypes that they may have not of realized, some being a test about racism and sexism. One of the stereotypes that I wish to focus on is the thought of Male = Career. When it comes to careers everyone has stereotypical gender associations to specific career positions and even to this day
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As time passed, women began to break away from that tradition and began to work, going against the stereotype of males being the providers and by 2004 women held about 40% of professional jobs in America and the statistics are slowly rising but not quickly enough. It may be because of the traditional thought of men working in certain fields or stereotypes that women don’t belong in a certain may cause them to steer away from the career even if they find passion in it just because it may be or they may feel like it is taboo for them to be in the certain career. I do remember back in 2013 while being a junior in highschool, one of my friends told me she was passionate about cars, possibly being a mechanic but she didn’t want to focus on it because automotives was a “men’s” field. I began to be more attentive of the automotive classes that were in session for my junior and senior year and I noticed the classes majorly consisted of males. In my senior automotive class, there was only a single female in the class and from what I heard from typical friendly conversations is that she changed her major because she didn’t feel right being one of the few, if not, only female in her automotive …show more content…
May it because they feel as if a woman being in a certain field may feel taboo or that employers unconsciously discriminate and prefer men working in the field can be one of many reasons why women do not get into the careers they may feel passionate about. We must come up with ways for every career to give women a chance to show that certain careers aren’t just for men, but for those who feel passionate enough to put all their efforts into learning the skills and gaining the mindset for these careers and to help progress in those fields. Personally I would love to see more women who have a passion for automotives to ignore these biases and stereotypes and make that push to become a technician. As the staggering percentage mention before of the amount of technicians being male, I’d like to see that change. Automotives is not a man’s world, but a world that requires anyone with passion and determination to love working on automotive vehicles and to advance in efficiency of these vehicles. To show that women can be as skilled or even better in the field that is predominantly made up of men and to help show that fields that traditionally thought of for men should be
As time passed, women began to break away from that tradition and began to work, going against the stereotype of males being the providers and by 2004 women held about 40% of professional jobs in America and the statistics are slowly rising but not quickly enough. It may be because of the traditional thought of men working in certain fields or stereotypes that women don’t belong in a certain may cause them to steer away from the career even if they find passion in it just because it may be or they may feel like it is taboo for them to be in the certain career. I do remember back in 2013 while being a junior in highschool, one of my friends told me she was passionate about cars, possibly being a mechanic but she didn’t want to focus on it because automotives was a “men’s” field. I began to be more attentive of the automotive classes that were in session for my junior and senior year and I noticed the classes majorly consisted of males. In my senior automotive class, there was only a single female in the class and from what I heard from typical friendly conversations is that she changed her major because she didn’t feel right being one of the few, if not, only female in her automotive …show more content…
May it because they feel as if a woman being in a certain field may feel taboo or that employers unconsciously discriminate and prefer men working in the field can be one of many reasons why women do not get into the careers they may feel passionate about. We must come up with ways for every career to give women a chance to show that certain careers aren’t just for men, but for those who feel passionate enough to put all their efforts into learning the skills and gaining the mindset for these careers and to help progress in those fields. Personally I would love to see more women who have a passion for automotives to ignore these biases and stereotypes and make that push to become a technician. As the staggering percentage mention before of the amount of technicians being male, I’d like to see that change. Automotives is not a man’s world, but a world that requires anyone with passion and determination to love working on automotive vehicles and to advance in efficiency of these vehicles. To show that women can be as skilled or even better in the field that is predominantly made up of men and to help show that fields that traditionally thought of for men should be