Soundwave said:
Men dominate many fields of work, but largely on an outdated premise IMO. In the past the man generally had to hunt for food and the woman would stay home to take care of children.
This basically has meant that men work, women stay home, but it's an outdated concept in a world wherein:
1.) We don't have to hunt for food. We don't even farm for our own food any more.
2.) Most households need two incomes to be able to live a comfortable life, as such women don't grow up anymore just assuming they can get pregnant and it's mission accomplished. Women are more career oriented and it's no just a feminist type thing, it's a reality of living in the world today. A woman can't assume she can be a housewife, what happens if he husband is not making enough money? What happens in a divorce?
So an influx of women into fields that previously would've been fairly male-only or male-centric is natural. The world doesn't need that many women working at a salon or whatever "people friendly" job some men would deem "women centric". Also does a female librarian not work with "things", how does she ever cope with such extreme "stress", lol. There are differences between men and women, but mainly that applies to extremely physical fields. Perhaps fields like construction will generally be dominated by men ... but office jobs where you sit in front of a computer? The men at Google (this guy in particular) looks like he couldn't bench press a bag of salt.
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It doesn't matter where the world needs women in the way you put it. No one decides that. Women choose for themselves what fields they want their career in or if they want to be some housewife or go off on some adventure.
What happens if women just don't like certain types of careers or prefer certain types over others? Wouldn't there be some kind of skew in employment rates of women with those types of jobs if that was the case?
Isn't whether they can do the career they want to or not, the more important part about this? If there's a barrier or not?
If there's no barriers to get into a career, does it really matter how many women or men work in it? Fuck no. The goal isn't to create an artificial diversity but to make sure there's no barriers for anyone to gain entry in a career they want.
Why isn't there more female roofers? Because they don't like it or want it as a job. Why isn't there more female scientists? Because they don't like it or want it as a job.
