Gender discrimination: What endeavors are closed to men?

Or that society has decided that Men must be the breadwinners and men turn to crime to support their family. But of course, males are sentenced more severely. And when men get angry and attack, they are much lore likely to do significant or deadly damage, and thus go to prison.

This is not true.

Other than social barriers (and of course Midwife, nanny, baysitter, etc fall into that for men) what professions are, by law, limited to* men* in any jurisdiction, especially a western one?

It’s unlikely that there will be a male miko anytime soon.

18 and 19 are “teen aged” are they not?

My wife taught at a nanny school for a while, and did housing, and there was one male nanny, who boarded with us. He graduated and did not have any trouble finding a job.

My brother for some reason known only to him majored in family planning in college. His job search did not go well. Fortunately he is also a good mechanic, which is what he did until he got into IT.

It’s not universal but call-centre operators are mostly women or gay men.

I worked at one Telco where the Human Resources lady had a policy where she would only hire woman and gay men unless she had no other choice. I think the theory was they were more empathetic with customers.

Have you tried pointing out that he’s accused of sexually assaulting male children?

Has masseuse already been mentioned? It’s a mainly female occupation here in the US. Also, NFL sideline reporters are all female as far as I know. There’s some stores that hire mostly women such as Hallmark, Baskin & Robbins and the shopping mall corn dog chains with employees wearing the ridiculous tall hats.

Hard to imagine that any parents would really want their daughter taught by a teacher who assaults her male classmates, though. Doesn’t sound like a good environment for anybody involved.

Are you serious?

These women are up in arms because we’ve had a few cases of male teachers, male day care attendants and male priests sexually abusing kids in the last few years I this small geographic area (South Shore of Greater Boston). And zero reported cases of female abusers (at least ones that made news headlines). The proportion of men in these professions that have access to young children (preschool teachers, elementary school teachers, Sunday school teachers) in the first place is vanishingly small. They react by pulling their kids out of catholic schools, CCD classes and school class sections with male teachers. My point was that this may be painting male teachers with an unfairly broad brush.

And I’m going to lead with my chin by pointing out that we have nothing to worry about, because Mr. Abc, even if he is a potential or actual child sex abuser, probably would prefer boys? So our little girl is probably safe?

First Lady.

Yeah, but that’s just a terminology thing, like saying a guy can’t be Queen. He can still have the job, he’d just be King. In the case of First Lady, if Hillary’s elected, Bill will be First Lord.

Or, you know, something else. But he’ll be doing the same job.

First Dude.

There is a newish cab company like uber but for driving your kids around called shuddle. They don’t explicitly ban male drivers, but so far their hundreds of drivers all happen to be women.

That guy’s not at the same school.

Just throwing it out there. :frowning:

How easy is it, in general, for men to become primary school teachers? I used to know a guy in college (here in the US) who was in, or at least considering applying for, a teacher preparation program here. He had mentioned that US programs often actually give men an advantage in the process of applying and that he was hoping to take advantage of that.

For those who have experienced teacher preparation programs (in any jurisdiction), is that actually true in a meaningful sense? E.g. will they take men with lower test scores, etc. as long as they pass the background check? E.g. “He almost failed the teacher exams, his GPA is marginal at best, but he doesn’t have any sexual convictions. Bring him on!”

Is this not grounds for a lawsuit?

In the US, yes. Not sure about the gay part but telemarketers in the US are much more likely to be female.

Only if it’s provable in a court of law.