The position of Treasurer of the United States (not to be confused with the Secretary of the Treasury) traditionally goes to a woman. Or at least it has for the past 60 years.
I’m wondering if there’s any similar position elsewhere that is traditionally given to a woman. Note that I don’t mean a position like the King’s Consort[sup]1[/sup] or Queen’s chambermaid or something like that.
[sup]1[/sup] Although it’s only a matter of time before a King’s Consort somewhere in the world is not female. If that hasn’t already happened.
The paragraph at the end is the most important. Back in the 90s, several men successfully sued Hooters when they were not hired as waiters. I just happened to remember reading about that back then.
Queen? Princess?
Surrogate?
I’d like to think this is hard to do today and that women are in every job a man is but I don’t know.
One presumes that most of the jobs associated with female religious orders are staffed exclusively by females, Mother Superior of various Catholic abbeys, for example
My elementary school teacher was a man and most of the other ones I knew of growing up were too. I am 37. My daughter’s principal is a female though so maybe things have changed.
As was my elementary (+middle & high school) principals. I’m 25, but my father (who’s 62) had a female principal back in the '50s so it wasn’t completely unheard of for a woman be one.
PE teachers might be required to be of the same sex as their students since part of their job involves supervising their students in their lockerrooms.
I am an elementary school teacher (male) who has worked for both male and female principals. Also, one of my principals when I was in elementary school was male.
I think you’ll find that janitorial staff are often male. All you have to do is knock first, then make sure nobody else comes in.
Men’s bathrooms are bad, but women aren’t much better. It is amazing some of the disgusting and stupid (flushed…) stuff you will see done with sanitary products.
Re: the toilet attendant. For the type of toilet attendant that sits there dispensing perfume and soap, in some bars (or dispensing pretty much everything in some parts of Eastern Europe) the attendant has to be a woman.
Midwives are sometimes men, though it is rare. But that’s for a British definition of midwife, which is a qualified specialist nurse, not comparable to a doula.
Similar to the OP, the President of Ireland always seems to be a woman, at least the past few have been, but that’s because it’s harder to find a man called Mary.
‘Minister for Women’ would be an odd job to give to a man.
Those people who come round schools and give talks on ‘growing up,’ usually separating the girls from the boys? The girls’ teacher would be much better given to a woman - hard enough to teach pre-teen and teen girls about menstruation and sanitary products if the person doing it is a man.