A growing network of online communities known collectively as the “manosphere” is emerging as a serious threat to gender equality, as toxic digital spaces increasingly influence real-world attitudes, behaviours, and policies, the UN agency dedicated to ending gender discrimination has warned.

A growing network of online communities known collectively as the “manosphere” is emerging as a serious threat to gender equality, as toxic digital spaces increasingly influence real-world attitudes, behaviours, and policies, the UN agency dedicated to ending gender discrimination has warned.

  • FloMo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    84·
    2 hours ago

    positions like nurses or teachers are very female dominated.

    I’m sure it varies from country to country, but in the US women could not study medicine until the late 1800’s and the US Army did not allow female physicians until 1940.

    It’s not unlikely to think we have many people today who were alive before women practicing as physicians was common place.

    I’m convinced it’s less of a matter of a group “dominating” a space but rather being pigeonholed/forced into it due to a lack of options, and these circumstances have impact that are still felt to this day.

    I’m not sure about Italy but in a lot of the US becoming a school teacher requires a college degree and has wages that do not keep up with the cost of living.

    You can look up articles of teachers losing their jobs for doing sex work or provocative modeling to earn extra income because their job does not pay enough.

    Doesn’t seem like that big of a win? Unless I’m missing something?

    Edit: re-read your reply and realized I did not read it properly the first time. That’ll teach me to comment in the wee hours LOL. I greatly appreciate your response! Leaving the original reply in place for the sake of context.

    • sudneo@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      9 hours ago

      Like another comment stated about Germany, even in Italy medicine faculties have a majority of women today as well.

      I agree that in general teacher jobs are not glamorous or high-paying, but it’s still a very important role in society and we can still discuss how it’s a problem that there is an effective (social, mostly) barrier for males accessing (lower level) education jobs.

      I do believe that this is essentially another symptom of a wider problem related to gender roles.

      • FloMo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 hours ago

        I do believe that this is essentially another symptom of a wider problem related to gender roles.

        Certainly agree with you there and I really appreciate your nuanced take.

        I think many miss the greater overarching message that forcing gender roles only serves to hold us back as a human race.

    • zaphod@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      9·
      9 hours ago

      I’m sure it varies from country to country, but in the US women could not study medicine until the late 1800’s

      In Germany at the moment around two thirds of medicine students are women and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the similar in most western countries.