Trying to think of gendered jobs

Jan 26, 2010 20:18

That is, when you say you are an X, people therefore expect you to be a certain gender...

Nurse vs. male nurse
Prostitute vs. male prostitute
Janitor vs maid/housekeeper

What am I missing? I'm sure there are many more.

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seamonkey_mags January 27 2010, 02:08:43 UTC
Do people actually say "female engineer"? Definitely the assumption is that an engineer is male, but I haven't heard the reverse.

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