Another Ceiling? Can males compete for traditionally female jobs?

When we look at the last few years, we can determine that the female workers among us are having greater access to the mid-level management jobs in the big business world. But has it always been that way? Is it possible for women to get higher on the corporate ladder? And is it possible that women nowadays can and will do jobs that can be considered as pro-male? The answers:

Women who got stuck on the mid-management jobs, this group of desperate housewives is rising very quickly. Their progressive moves are limited by what they call “ the glass ceiling ”. It prevents women from entering the top management positions.

The reasons and causes for that glass ceiling are very widespread. Some persons claim that there aren’t enough women who are interested or qualified to do those jobs, others say management is a male domain, but there is one opinion that attracts attention, the so called “ same sex preference “ opinion. This means that people prefer working with people of the same sex.

To explain the second part of our question, we can see that the work floor can be divided in 2 groups: the traditionally female jobs and the traditionally male jobs. To see what the problem really is about, we will create a fictive person, called; Suzy. When Suzy wants to apply for a female job, we can see that the bias against Suzy are in favour of her, she will get the job. On the other hand, when Suzy wants to apply for a typical male job – management – we see that the bias against her turns out very bad, so she can forget the male job. This scenario can be seen by many who want to get higher or do an intellectual, high professional, male job.

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Pieter De Vriendt