to hide the feminism topic?

[CerealOffender]

the thread titles are all so serious and worthy and make me feel frivolous and unsisterly.

Interstingly, when the balance tipped so that there were more women than men doctors in the former USSR, the status of the profession went down. Generally, professions with majority of women (teaching and nursing, for example) are thought less of than where men are in the majority. Sad but true.

Let's hope that that at least has changed

God that's depressing seeker :(

Come back in 10-15 years, MrsDD and if you can show me that more than 50% of the people at the top of your profession (not at entry level) are women, I will eat my dungarees and Doc Martens.

In my profession, the number of new entrants is 50/50 male/female. But in a place where working long hours is the norm once you get to a certain level, the number of women who are able/want to juggle that with having children is very small so by the time you reach the top echelons, the split is more like 90/10.

I would be very surprised if that changed any time soon although why I'm engaging with someone who thinks that rape and domestic violence aren't feminist issues, I don't know

Even when the profession is female dominated (like mine), the few men who are in it become very successful super quickly and there are surprising amounts of men at the very top, considering women outnumber men massively (on the professional courses it's something like 10-1).

I always feel mildly depressed whrn the spokesperson for nurses or primary school teachers turns out yet again to be a man........

Genuine question for IloveDonaldDraper.

If, as you predict, your profession will soon no longer be male dominated and the status of that profession then, as a consequence, went down would you consider that to be a feminist issue?