Josh+Small

Picking a Job   (new version)

Gender issues have been around since the beginning of mankind. It seems that the male usually dominates over the female in almost everyway. Until now, men have been getting better jobs then women, a better education, and are treated much better. It seems that me in the career world are have a significant advantage of women in the working world. This leads to the question, do different genders attract to different jobs and which gender is it better to be in the job world? These questions will never be answered fully because there are always exceptions. When boys become older, they start to wonder what career they want to have. Everyone thinks about this eventually. When boys are thinking about work, they would want work that fits the stereotype. The stereotypical job for a man is a something that pays through getting an education. For example, being a doctor or a lawyer. These are jobs that people think of as make jobs. Males should hold them because they are smarter then women. This is what kids thought many years ago. Men would be able to get better occupation because they went to collage unlike women. Fifty years ago collage were more then male. This is because men didn’t feel restricted in the career world. They were free to do what ever they liked. In the book __Andromeda Strain,__ by Michael Crichton, it shows what jobs men went into 30 years ago. The book was written in 1969, and the book shows what Crichton thought of gender. In the book, it is about a virus that threatens mankind. A special team is put together that is only made up males. The males are all doctors. They are called in to save the world, but there are no women on the team. This drew my attention because now females make up a good chunk of doctors in the United States. In the book there were women receptionist, but none were men. The men were higher up and they weren’t supposed to be to be receptionists, they were supposed to set their standards higher. Present dayboys feel about the same as past boys in the job world. They feel they can still do anything, but they have rising competition from the girls. In an interview with Rafi Small, a senior at Horace Greeley High School, he agrees with this statement. He doesn’t feel restricted in anyway in the job world because of his education. He has noticed more girls being interested in medicine at the school, more then he would think. In another interview with Ilan Small, a junior at Greeley, he thought the same, but there is more competition with girls. He says the boys really want to do better then the girls. They don’t see any limitations in the employment world and they feel the same past boys. In my life I feel very similar. I feel like I could do anything I want. I do not feel any restrictions. I could be anything I want to be and this is strongly encouraged by adults. In my family, my mom is always talking about one of my brothers becoming a doctor and following in my dad’s footsteps. She doesn’t say she wants us to be nurses. She is encouraging my brothers and I to work in a stereotypical field. Girls have limitations in the employment world. At least this was partially true twenty years ago. Past girls thought they had limitations because of the stereotypes of girls. The stereotypes are they are not as smart as boys, so they can’t go to collage and get a good job. This was not really true twenty years ago, but today it is completely false. It is completely false because girls are in more schools then boys. Today, teachers think of them just as equal and they are almost treated as equals. In the book __Andromeda Strain,__ by Michael Crichton, there are rarely women mentioned in the book. When they are mentioned, they hold occupations that pay less then the men. In the book, they are receptionists. Since the book was written in 1967, it shows the big difference between how girls were treated in the past and how they are treated today. Girls today, still have limitations, but they have shrunken greatly. In the past they were only supposed to become teachers, nurses and receptionist, but today they can be doctors or lawyers. The only thing slowing down women are the stereotypes that people believe are true, even though there not. Biases play an important role as well. Men can’t except that women can do what they can. Women have come along way in the career world. They used to have many limitations, but not anymore. They can do work just as well as men can, in most cases. Even though this is true, it would be better to be a male in the job world in the past and the present. In past, men had no competition with women, so there was nothing stopping them. This is when most people still believed in stereotypes, but not today. It would still be better to be a male in the career world because they get paid on average higher then women, even though they hold the same job. Men still have no limitations, but they have competition. Even though women have come a long way, it would still be better to be a male for all of these reasons.