Pink collar positions are office jobs that have been dominated by women for the past 70 years or so–secretary, receptionist, administrative assistant, scheduler, etc.
In my life, I’ve only ever met a single man who worked as a receptionist in a medical office.
Recently in a thread about AI showing bias against job applications, someone mentioned male names being thrown in the discard pile for women’s positions.
If you’re a man who is in the field OR has tried to get into it, what’s your experiece been?
I’ve been at my current workplace in the education field for over 5 years (so no experience with AI bias during applications), and I at least thought I was a guy at the time I started it. Recently, I mostly work with STEM subject with high school students, so not really even pink color, but when I started I was primarily doing English and I’ve also worked with elementary students over the years, so I think it counts.
Honestly didn’t have any problem getting the job. I got like 2 other job offers at basically the same time. I’ve moved up in within the company since starting (I knew I wasn’t a man by then, but my work didn’t) which basically just adds underpaid secretary work onto the rest of my workload.