Also plenty of female business-to-business salespeople…I’ve had more than a few in organizations I was running. Definitely need some courage for those jobs, certainly mastery both of sales skills and of product knowledge.

Those ‘traditionally male’ attributes may show up most strongly in certain kinds of blue-collar jobs, but not restricted to those.

Share of women in the following occupations.

9.9%: Surveying and mapping technicians
9.7%: Refuse and recyclable material collectors
9.5%: Architectural and engineering managers
9.3%: Computer network architects
9.3%: First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers
9.0%: Computer numerically controlled tool operators and programmers
8.7%: Mechanical engineers
8.4%: Construction managers
8.3%: Painters and paperhangers
8.3%: Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers
8.1%: Painting workers
8.0%: Broadcast, sound, and lighting technicians
7.8%: Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters
7.8%: Driver/sales workers and truck drivers
7.7%: Locomotive engineers and operators
7.4%: Highway maintenance workers
7.0%: Tree trimmers and pruners
7.0%: Industrial truck and tractor operators
6.5%: Landscaping and groundskeeping workers
6.3%: Telecommunications line installers and repairers
6.0%: First-line supervisors of landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers
5.8%: Drywall installers, ceiling tile installers, and tapers
5.8%: Machinists
5.6%: Sheet metal workers
5.6%: Aircraft pilots and flight engineers
5.4%: Aircraft mechanics and service technicians
5.2%: Industrial and refractory machinery mechanics
4.4%: Firefighters
4.3%: Maintenance and repair workers, general
4.2%: Millwrights
3.9%: Carpet, floor, and tile installers and finishers
3.9%: Construction equipment operators
3.8%: Construction laborers
3.8%: Welding, soldering, and brazing workers
3.5%: First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers
3.3%: Roofers
3.2%: Electrical and electronic engineering technologists and technicians
3.2%: Carpenters
3.1%: Electricians
2.9%: Insulation workers
2.8%: Cement masons, concrete finishers, and terrazzo workers
2.5%: Pest control workers
2.3%: Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters
1.8%: Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists
1.5%: Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers
1.4%: Automotive service technicians and mechanics
1.3%: Electrical power-line installers and repairers
1.0%: Automotive body and related repairers
0.8%: Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and mechanics
0.8%: Crane and tower operators
0.3%: Brickmasons, blockmasons, and stonemasons
0.0%: Security and fire alarm systems installers

Women need the same attributes when doing the same jobs, although they don’t usually have to “prove their competence as protectors and providers” to attract a good mate in the way that men do.

This is called “the man box” and The Good Men Project is dead against it. You have to read the thing not to believe it.

Very much echoes my experience in college in the late 70’s – early eighties when I attended day classes.

Funny though, the difference in evening classes. There the teachers often were professionals with daytime jobs outside of the education institutions. They were there to teach, and to provide real-life experience (hey, you want to know why “this” is important – because in the real world “this” comes up all of the time, that’s why). They weren’t there to provide opinion. This was true in English and History classes as well as in Maths. And many of the students, like me, were working full-time jobs during the day, earning money to PAY for school, so we didn’t tolerate a bunch of bullshit coming from the professor/instructor.

Why, you could say the difference was like night and day.