Interesting but I don't think its true to say women avoid jobs that involve contact with pathogens when we're vast majority of nurses/carershttps://twitter.com/degenrolf/status/927485955732393984 …
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Most likely reason why women change diapers and bandage sores the most while men muck out sewers the most: heavy lifting.pic.twitter.com/o3cW9yMaWP
More likely to be women's general preference for working with people over things and men's reversed preference.
Sewer cleaners often do work in teams, though, especially when they have a particularly huge job to do; like dealing with the 737-fusilage-sized fatberg which was clogging NYC's sewer a while back.pic.twitter.com/NRMaGvqjhE
And nurses use technology but the object of work is people in one case and systems in another.
Wasn't it era-driven? One seen as a natural extension of mothering, the other "mechanical" and therefore "men's work".
Women consistently preferring to work with people and men with things, almost certainly.
One hypothesis might be esteem vs drudgery. Nurses are more esteemed for the work they do, sewer workers less so. /1
But are women more inclined to seek high-esteem jobs? Probably not. They improve men's biological fitness more than women's.
Perhaps dealing w/humans brings out more compassion/empathy?
Empathising–Systemizing theory? Environment related? Hospitals with 100's of pro's on hand vs a netherworld of shit-caked pipelines
Generalisation: men more abstract, women more humanist/pragmatic, ergo; Women> Clean shit off people Men> Clean shit off machinery
Its because one is direct care and the other is a dirty job. If it's a job with little social benefit usually the man chooses to do it.
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