baby making machine?
Yeah, my co-ed gym classed for both middle and high school had male teachers, and no one supervised in either locker room.
Peter Pan, is not that part always a female?
Governor General of Canada.
I’ve heard Canadian women complaining that, just because it is a completely ceremonial position with no power or authority, they have taken to giving it to women for the last 30 years or so. “Why not prime minister?”, they ask.
Traditionally, but not always. In the Disney version, Peter Pan was played by Bobby Driscoll. In the 2003 film version, he was played by Jeremy Sumpter.
Except the new new governor general of Canadais a man, David Johnston. And we have had a female Prime Minister, Kim Campbell. Of course, she lost in her first election so badly it might be a while before we have another one …
President of MADD (not the magazine…)
I understand why the rape trauma counselor for a female patient would be a woman. But why not allow men on those floors?
Probably after a horrible experience involving a man they just wanna make the women comfortable.
Ahem. I have both a beard and a penis. We have plenty of men in HR at my company, although probably less than 50% of the whole department.
Avon representative?
Golly! That’s fascinating! Do you want me to give you a list of positions that have only been occupied by men for the last 600 years and we can talk about positions reserved for men?
Best selling representative in our district for the last six campaigns is a married man in his mid-40s.
Anyone ever had a male school nurse?
Just once, but he’s put that trauma behind him. So to speak.
I did and he was the single most intimidating person I have ever met. He wasn’t mean and was always friendly but there was always this air of intimidation around him. He was muscular, but not super above average, and he was only about 5’7 but he just had this vibe…
It wasn’t just me that felt it either I don’t think any of the students were comfortable around him. I’ve had people threatening to stab me and they weren’t half as intimidating as this man asking how my day was going.
I don’t think the sarcasm is called for here. I’m not trying to make any kind of point in the gender wars, and if you want to, you’re in the wrong forum. (Great Debates is two doors down on the right; The BBQ Pit is at the far end of the hall behing the fireproof door.) I’m just genuinely curious about the question.
As for the suggested answers so far, unless I missed something, all seem to be positions that require women due to biology (e.g. surrogate mother, wet nurse) or psychology (e.g. rape counsellor). I’m looking for positions that don’t require those.
Now I’m sure there are some out there. For instance, there are some all-women or formerly all-women colleges that have never had a male president. Not all of them, of course, so you’d have to restrict the position description accordingly. It’s possible that some of those schools have never had any males on their administrative staff or even in their faculty.
Nonsense. There have certainly been male GGs in the last 30 years. Ray Hnatyshin (however that’s spelled), an NDP guy from Manitoba whose name escapes me. Not to mention a female PM about 15 years who served for six months and then held an election in which her party (the Progressive Conservatives) was reduced to 2 seats and eventually disappeared.
The next GG will be a man. An asshole, but a male asshole (I knew him moderately well when he was Principal of McGill).
My dad, but Jesuit All-Boys High Schools/Seminars tend to be short on females. If my own HS had a nurse it was one of the Brothers, too (Jesuits again, but co-ed).
In Spain there’s some political positions which have been going to women frequently in the last 35 years. Culture, Education and Youth (sometimes a single position, sometimes two or three) are among these; even during Franco’s regime, the female branch of the party’s Youth organization was much more focused on culture, preserving folk arts and history than the boy’s section. As more women get political positions (so there is less of a feeling of “they made a woman Minister of Culture because they needed at least one person in the Government who could wear skirts”) and the job and training market diversifies (leading to women in such “manly” jobs as Minister of Defense or Councilor for Industrial Development), the “candy jobs” are seen less as “candy jobs” and more as a matter of choosing the right person for the job.
Using my gym teacher* example there were jobs that require women (or men) for cultural or social reasons based privacy taboos.
*Yes, I know realize that not all PE teachers had to supervise lockerrooms, but my point that if a lockerroom is being supervised the supervisor must be of the same-sex as the supervised still stands.