Do you have job that is outside of your ‘gender role’?
How do people in your work environment react? Has it brought positive or negative experiences or both?
My fiance has a restaurant kitchen exhaust cleaning business so I work with him. It’s typically a male job I guess but I still enjoy it. I get a few raised eyebrows and occasionally people get cranky and think I’m not capable to doing my work properly because I’m a girl, but overall it’s good.
What have been your experiences?
Daniel: I’ve seen a lot of guys who were better caring for small children than women. Guys have more fun with it and tend to be more involved I think.
JCMS – I think kitchens are one of the roughest places to work, at least in the restaurants I’ve seen. The levels of stress and exertion can get pretty rough.
And here in Australia I rarely see any female chefs or kitchen hands yet theres still a funny stereotype about it being women’s work lol.
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