The OP isn’t asking about jobs where men are underrepresented, though. He was asking about jobs where legal or social restrictions mean that men are effectively barred. While I’m sure the vast majority of professional cheerleaders in the US are women, the Baltimore Ravens have a co-ed squad that includes a number of men in their stunt team.
I don’t follow cheerleading, but when I was in high school back in the 1990s I was acquainted with a guy who was on the cheerleading squad at another school. It’s my recollection that it wasn’t that unusual to have a few male cheerleaders on high school or college squads back then, and the university where I work now has several male cheerleaders on its squad.
I’d lump it in under his “significant (i.e. non-trivial)” caveat of societal pressure. When I’d heard about Bush’s experience it was quite a ways from complimentary.
To-may-to. To-mah-to. Tomatoe is Dan Quayle is reading.
A couple of years ago, a coworker, who had a little daughter, told me about a male kindergarten teacher at the kindergarten said daughter attended. This young man felt compelled to provide all parents with detailed informations about his personal background and to specifically address the issue of sexual abuse.
I guess the underlying assumption/fear/suspicion/prejudice is that a male who choses a profession in which he works with small children could be a sexual predator and that’s probably one of the reasons why there aren’t many male kindergarten teachers. I’d also assume that a middle-aged, unmarried man would be virtually unacceptable in this career field.
One position that comes to mind for me is the post of Gleichstellungsbeauftragte (Commissioner for Gender Equality) in German public institutions (federal, state and municipial public administrations, universities etc.)
The holder of that job is to advocate initiatives for gender equality, be consulted on policies, reorganization, hiring etc. with regard to the gender equality angle. It is full time or part time depending on the size of the administration concerned.
The statutes establishing these posts on the federal level as well as in most states (for state and municipial administrations) mandate that the post is filled by a ballot of the female employees electing one of their number.
It seems in Saxony the gender equality commissioner for universities is regulated by university-specific legislation which allows both genders (SächsHSFG § 55). In general public administration men are not allowed, though (SächsFFG § 18). In my state of Baden-Württemberg it seems the Beauftragte für Chancengleichheit (Commissioner for Equality of Opportunity) must be a woman (ChancenG BW § 17)
That should have been “wet nurse.” Actually, a man could induce lactation with medication and a lot of determination, but I doubt any parent would hire him. Not that, in the US, a parent would hire a wet nurse anyway. But I’ll bet a milk bank would even turn away his donations.
That’s an interesting one. I read my money too, and I’ve never seen a man’s name in my lifetime, so I looked it up. Only women have served in this position since 1949. It was all men before that, though. The one unusual, and not gender-apparent name on the list, Azie Taylor Morton, was not only a woman, but a black woman who had Deaf parents. She was extremely accomplished, and thus far still the only black person to serve as treasurer. My source is a book published by Gallaudet called Deaf Heritage.
The dental hygienist thing might come from the fact that women tend to have smaller hands, and also tend not to have hair on their knuckles and the backs of their hands, and so they are perceived as more clean, or something (yes, I know they all wear gloves now, but a lot of people grew up with them not wearing gloves). The prejudice is overcome for the actual dentist by the doctor-must-be-man idea, and at any rate, it’s the hygienist who actually spends the most time with her hands in your mouth.
Makeup models.
Auto show spokesperson.
Person who struts around the ring between rounds of a boxing match holding up the card with the round number on it.
A more straightforward, honest way, much less loaded with questionable and idiosyncratic ideological assumptions. Are you suggesting that what is criminalized is completely arbitrary, or that women have much greater control than men do over what sorts of laws get passed?
What are all these behaviors preferred by women that you think ought to be, or even might reasonably be, criminalized (but aren’t)? Gossip? Cattiness? Knitting?
Isn’t this like saying, “The reason for the lower percentage of white people per capita vs. higher percentage of black people per capita in jail is because black people commit more crime per capita?”
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