FreddyE1977 said:
I am fully aware that all single women are not working as clerks/secretaries/nurses/teachers in this day and age.
But of the subset of people in DC holding clerical jobs, I'd be willing to bet my next paycheck that the vast
majority are women. (largely because the US Census data says it's so)
I went back to college in the 90s, so I can confirm that the majority of college students are now women. I'm sure it's even more true now - 15 years later. I was in the Psychology department (probably 75% women), but the Business department was still probably about 70% men.
I now work in Human Resources at a fairly large company (2000 employees). We're a very diverse company in terms of ethnicity and gender, but some of the stereotypes do hold. Interestingly, most of our top executives are now women, including our CEO. But generally speaking, the vast majority of clerks are women, the largest number of Asian Americans are in the IT department, most of our tradespeople are still men, etc. Stereotypes exist for a reason - that being that there is some truth to them.
