making clothes and food were prestigious when men did them, trivial when women do, etc, and so on up to housework and childcare.
The same sort of devaluing seems to have happened to teaching (particularly at the primary level) and to be in the process of happening to academia and law. As women get into a career in greater numbers, the number of men applying drops, and eventually the status of the career suffers.
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Date: 2005-11-03 02:00 pm (UTC)The same sort of devaluing seems to have happened to teaching (particularly at the primary level) and to be in the process of happening to academia and law. As women get into a career in greater numbers, the number of men applying drops, and eventually the status of the career suffers.