I get that, but at my job, the managers are almost all male, and the consensus seems to be that the people doing traditionally pink collar work don’t do ANY work, even though heaven forbid that one of them should call out, leaving management to cover the shift. (They then complain how tired they are, how they have to abandon their own jobs, etc etc, oh the humanity! but after it’s over with, they will go back to saying that pink collar work isn’t work). One way I have found that you can be treated like a human being is if you are seen lifting heavy objects and fixing things. It works, so I do it rather than enduring the complete lack of respect of being treated like a freeloader when I am nothing of the sort!
I worked for a freight company where many of the data entry jobs were performed in air conditioned comfort while the physical work involved heavy lifting in the Phoenix heat.
The data entry jobs could be learned in a day.
The physical jobs involved operating heavy machinery which took weeks or months to master. Many of the jobs required high degrees of physical strength, CDLs, hazmat endorsements, physical exams every two years, FBI background checks, random drug tests, and involved constant danger and legal liability.
Truck drivers and dock workers meeting those requirements are difficult to come by, while data entry employees are a dime-a-dozen.
Which group do you think was paid more?
Everywhere I have worked, the women fit in as well as the men. I don't know if they paid the same; but, their work was always up to par. I used to be a male chauvinist in the work place until I worked under a lady who was one of Admiral Grace Hopper's girls. She tied a knot in my ass and send me down the straight and narrow.