What jobs and occupations are traditionally dominated by women?

Question

By traditionally I mean the last 100 years.

Answer 1

Good Question. Customer service jobs tend to be female dominated. I work on a supermarket checkout and roughly 90% of staff were female. Unfortunately the few men we had tended to be given the physical tasks.  

Answer 2

Secretaries, Hairdressers, Beauty therapists, make up artists, nail techniction, sun bed shop, cleaners, pharmacy, ummm......im bit stuck now!!

Answer 3

All the silly non heavy-labor jobs that industry felt men would be wasting their time doing.  

Answer 4

Dominatrixes

Answer 5

It's funny because people claim that women have been 'freed' from the home but what jobs are they doing outside the home? Jobs they'd be doing in the home anyway! Cleaning ladies, caring jobs, waitressing, jobs like receptionists where you have to dress prettily because that's what customers respond to ... a person with not too much authority but well presented and polite. They can't even get to the top of their 'profession'. Cleaning ladies are managed by men, caring jobs are found within establishments run by men and waitresses are working for male proprieters. Even as cooks; women tend to be cooks and men chefs because chefs are managerial positions.

But don;t get me wrong. It's not that I think all women are stereotyped. Men are too. You see a male nanny and peopler think he's g*y. You see a man being a house husband, people will say he's weak and that his wife 'wears the trousers'. Men can't do whatever they want either.  

Answer 6

Here are some I can think of:

Seamstress

Washerwoman

Hairdresser

Cosmetologist

Beautician

Typist

Secretary

Receptionist

Librarian

Telemarketer

Maid

Housekeeper

Governess

Day care worker

School nurse

Wardrobe girl

Inker (for old animated movies)

Social worker

Midwife

Personal Tutor

Nun (if you're Catholic)

Airline Stewardess

Telephone switchboard operator

Chambermaid

Stenographer

Answer 7

EDIT: My comments are based on Australia, things may be different elsewhere. (These are in addition to the other jobs mentioned, so I won't say office worker again, lol.)

In abbatoirs (slaughterhouses), women work in the boning rooms, not men.

Packing of agricultural produce (fruit, veg, eggs, etc) is a female dominated job, with the men mostly doing the picking.

Factory based sewing machinists

Hotel (pub) bar staff

Cleaners

Commercial laundry workers (washerwomen)

Ironing/pressing

Personal care attendant

Manicurist

Typist (not clerical duties, just typing, VERY boring!!!)

Telephonist and Telephone Exchange Operator

Cannery work (canning fruit and veg, specifically. I'm not sure why mostly women do this, but men don't work the lines at this job. In other factories, guys are on the line, but not so much in fruit and veg canning)

Textile factory workers

Massage (therapeutic)

Anyway, that's a few more. You can decide if they're worth including.

Cheers ;-)

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When you say 'traditionally', what sort of time period are you talking about?

Cheers :-)

Answer 8

nursery nurses--ppl looking after children..nannies/child minders

Nurse in a hospital

and cant really think of anything else

OH

Sectary  

Answer 9

social workers

female only gym staff

staff who work in women refugees/shelters

staff at university english/language/history departments

Midwives

Answer 10

Anything that requires the ability to serve others.

Answer 11

Anything to do with the catering business, and heath care.

Answer 12

receptionists, secretaries......

Answer 13

Child care

Secretaries

Maids

Librarians

These in my opinion.

Answer 14

I don't understand why this matters? As long as we have the most capable person for the job who cares what s*x they are? Honestly, can anyone tell me why it matters?  

Answer 15

Ladies of the night.......

Answer 16

Seamstress

Hairdresser

Beuaty treatments in general

Answer 17

Dinner Lady/person

Carer/home help

Waitress

Cleaner/Maid

Most administrative assistants

Answer 18

****jobs?  

Answer 19

All the women in our family became nurses, except for the scientist, she works in Medical Science.

Answer 20

Dinnerladies and prostitutes.