No no - the example I gave was bizarro world! In reality, everyone there that I saw was male except for five females - fat gal on forklift, tank top gal in assembly, assistant gal, file clerk gal, and attractive receptionist. Everyone else was male (and white), and fit to a degree that is unusual in the US, when you're looking at a large sample size.
It's very normal for me to go to a workplace and be among the minority. 20% female is pretty normal. Less than 10% female is weird though, especially when those few females are clearly bottom of the ladder. HR is typically a bastion of female-ness, and at this place, even that was men.
I was just saying that if you took a bizarro world and flipped the genders, wouldn't that look really, REALLY weird? To have a large scale workplace, where the work has nothing to do with gender (really, making hoists? hardly the exclusive domain of men), and have 95% of the people there be women. Wouldn't that stand out and look odd? Wouldn't you think a man trying to enter that workplace would feel out of place? And that's assuming that men aren't particularly discriminated against, and don't have a boatload of prejudices working against them.
And there I am, a woman, trying to decide if this is a place where I want to work.
Of course with my luck, this will be the one place that's desperate to hire me. :(
It's very normal for me to go to a workplace and be among the minority. 20% female is pretty normal. Less than 10% female is weird though, especially when those few females are clearly bottom of the ladder. HR is typically a bastion of female-ness, and at this place, even that was men.
I was just saying that if you took a bizarro world and flipped the genders, wouldn't that look really, REALLY weird? To have a large scale workplace, where the work has nothing to do with gender (really, making hoists? hardly the exclusive domain of men), and have 95% of the people there be women. Wouldn't that stand out and look odd? Wouldn't you think a man trying to enter that workplace would feel out of place? And that's assuming that men aren't particularly discriminated against, and don't have a boatload of prejudices working against them.
And there I am, a woman, trying to decide if this is a place where I want to work.
Of course with my luck, this will be the one place that's desperate to hire me. :(
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