Men in pink collar positions, what's your experience?

Just wanted to add that pink collar jobs also include child care, teaching, and nursing - care-oriented jobs essentially.

And for context:

Louise Kapp Howe popularized the term pink collar in her 1977 book Pink Collar Workers: Inside the World of Women’s Work.[5] She used the term to describe jobs predominantly occupied by women, such as secretarial, clerical, teaching, nursing, and other caregiving or service roles. These positions were seen as extensions of traditional domestic responsibilities and were characterized by lower pay, limited career advancement opportunities, and a lack of prestige compared to "blue-collar" or "white-collar" jobs.

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It's been good, management is all ladies. I work as a caregiver. It seems that the environment is more forgiving and supportive than the usual job.

I worked as a substitute teacher in elementary ed when I was in grad school.

In that field, it often felt like I would get work purely because of my gender.

For me it's been very positive. But I generally like women better than men, so I fit in pretty well. I've always had more female than male friends, so I don't feel awkward or out of place at all, and people have been very welcoming.

Additionally, I've seen zero evidence of discrimination against me. In fact I feel I have unfortunately benefited to an extent from internalized misogyny. I feel like I get more respect and attention to my ideas than my female colleagues--even when we're arguing for the same things.

Now maybe some of that is my personality and competence but I'm not convinced all of it is.

I've been at my current workplace in the education field for over 5 years (so no experience with AI bias during applications), and I at least thought I was a guy at the time I started it. Recently, I mostly work with STEM subject with high school students, so not really even pink color, but when I started I was primarily doing English and I've also worked with elementary students over the years, so I think it counts.

Honestly didn't have any problem getting the job. I got like 2 other job offers at basically the same time. I've moved up in within the company since starting (I knew I wasn't a man by then, but my work didn't) which basically just adds underpaid secretary work onto the rest of my workload.

teaching

There's some nuance to this one, but you basically bring up the gist of it. Early childhood education and elementary school are predominantly taught by women because it is seen as an extension of maternal roles, but higher level education does become more of an even gender mix, up until it becomes somewhat patriarchical in some post secondary institutions.

It's not nearly as bad relative to other fields, but I'm reminded of the traditional gender split in culinary positions that has only more recently started changing, where women are expected to be home cooks, but only men are chefs.

Great points! The mastery of a craft is often only bestowed on men in those types of careers.

I was once adopted by the Secretary/Typist group where I was helping out because our Friday lunch hour was at the same time. They added an “a” to the end of my name to feminise it and proceeded to treat me as one of the girls. I learnt a lot about periods, make-up, men and fashion - amongst a host of other things. Happy memories.