Ever wonder what it is like.. to be a minority woman

[Stan]

Ever wonder what it is like.. to be a minority woman in a white male dominated professional situation?

Turns out... not that great..

[cricket]

Ever wonder what it's like to be a woman in a male dominated society? Yeah. It's not that great either.

[Neil D]

Ever wonder what it's like to be a man in a room full of professional and capable women? Yeah, mob mentality, and not that much fun either...

[LynnDel]

Poor Neil. Let me get you a hanky. There, there. Feel better now?

My line of work - elementary teaching - is dominated by females. The largest school in which I taught had nearly 30 teachers, with only three male teachers. They never complained about their minority status or seemed to suffer from it. From my observation, the problems a white male faces doesn't compare to the challenges a minority female often meets in the professional world, especially since racial hiring quotas are no longer directing personnel decisions. That was back when being a job-searching white male was not a good position to occupy.

[cricket]

Ever wonder why there's a mob mentality amongst women in the first place?? Gee, there's got to be a reason.

[Nan]

Ever wonder why there's a mob mentality amongst women in the first place?? Gee, there's got to be a reason.

Does that start when they learn to go to the bathroom in flocks?

Sorry Cricket, I know that was not the intent of your post....do you see the development of that mob mentality as having arisen out of a defensive need, or just as an outworking of normal female characteristics?

[Naomi]

Somehow I think it's all in how we approach our 'lot in life' I have a dear friend who is most definitely a minority, a female, in a male dominated profession/society: the legal profession. Having risen to a very high "office" she will tell everyone that it's all about your attitude, not their attitude.

As a female who spent her life in a profession dominated by, and occupied by, macho males, I can attest to being treated as a dumb blond among other things. On-the-other hand, the guys often had their share of put downs, pass over’s, and generally treated in cruel and unfair ways.

Just as young children will find something different about a child and zoom in on it, in often more cruel ways, aggressive, adult workplace bullies (male & females of all races) will display the same behavior.

Just my 2 cents