What Jobs Women Hold Around The World

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There is a trend for what jobs women typically hold in their society in countries all around the world. In an article titled “What Women Do” the author describes the similarities in the jobs women hold all around the world. To narrow it down the article “What Jobs Do American  Men and Women Have” focuses on the trends in America and what fields men and women go into.

Women around the world hold less formal jobs and more part-time jobs, this makes sense because the women is the one who usually stays home to take care of the children and do jobs at home while the men go out and work. The author in the article “What Women Do” makes a strong point that “  “You might expect that as countries get richer, women would become better educated and jobs requiring brute strength would become less important.” but this is still not very true because women do not have all equal rights as men in most countries. “Women cluster in communications, retail and public administration, including education and health. This is true regardless of national income.” Because I have only lived in one country my whole life, it is hard to see the comparison from the United States, but I can definitely see the trend in America, that women are in retail and public administrations.  The author also states that “ In China, South Africa and Senegal, food-processing firms prefer to sign export contracts with men, since they fear women will find it harder to meet the terms of the contract. So women do not grow cash crops. This problem is not confined to poor countries: the European Union found women less likely to start a business than men, largely for lack of credit.”

Some may think that America does not follow the same trend for jobs women hold because we are a superpower of the world and advanced, and we do follow the trend but are slowly inching our way out of it. The author in the article “What Jobs Do American Men and Women Have” demonstrates that “a higher proportion of working women than of working men are classified as professionals, but most professional women are primary or secondary school teachers and registered nurses.” Women are working there way up in the work world and  “In recent decades, the biggest change in the American occupational structure has been the increasing representation of women in the managerial, administrative, and professional ranks.”

Future Research- Rights for women in different countries.