Female dominated field?

[Wild Flower]

Anyone work in a female dominated field? how is it?

I'm considering becoming a hairstylist...

[Ms. OBrien CVT]

I am in the veterinary medicine field, veterinary technician, which is prominently female.  I love it.

[Henna]

I work in a healthcare area (assistant nurse and assistant pharmacist, monitoring clinical trials), which at least here is about 80% female. All my co-workers have been female. Chose this profession years ago for that reason only. I've enjoyed it a lot and it has probably been the one and only thing that has kept me sane and relatively happy all these years.

[Tossu-sama]

I'm in the surface treatment field and it has its two sides. The education is clearly dominated by females (one class in my school had only two boys out of 20 students) but in the working life, it's pretty much male oriented mostly because it's surprisingly hard and physical job which some don't realise when they start to study the field.

One of my co-workers - with whom I really don't socialise with - says painting is women's thing and considering me being a transguy, that's pretty insulting in a way. Well, obviously he doesn't know about my transsexuality but MEH. Still makes me frown.

[big kim]

I'm a  seaside guest house landlady.

[Elspeth]

I work in a healthcare area (assistant nurse and assistant pharmacist, monitoring clinical trials), which at least here is about 80% female. All my co-workers have been female. Chose this profession years ago for that reason only. I've enjoyed it a lot and it has probably been the one and only thing that has kept me sane and relatively happy all these years.

When I, to my friends' and family's amazement, joined the Army, several were suggesting I should go for one of the healthcare fields (and I did always want to be a nurse). But I only joined in order to learn Chinese (so I'd be able to read the I Ching in the original language) and because my college financial support from dad had disappeared. Before entering the Army, I worked as a substitute teacher, mainly at the local junior high. Students were pretty astounded to learn I had joined the Army.

Before becoming a full-time "mom" I did work mainly in somewhat glorified secretarial jobs where most of my peers and coworkers were women.

[Zumbagirl]

I work in a healthcare area (assistant nurse and assistant pharmacist, monitoring clinical trials), which at least here is about 80% female. All my co-workers have been female. Chose this profession years ago for that reason only. I've enjoyed it a lot and it has probably been the one and only thing that has kept me sane and relatively happy all these years.

I also work in the health care area but in management and in management it's split about 50/50. I enjoy working with people, mentoring and being a leader in an organization.

[Wild Flower]

I'm in the surface treatment field and it has its two sides. The education is clearly dominated by females (one class in my school had only two boys out of 20 students) but in the working life, it's pretty much male oriented mostly because it's surprisingly hard and physical job which some don't realise when they start to study the field.

One of my co-workers - with whom I really don't socialise with - says painting is women's thing and considering me being a transguy, that's pretty insulting in a way. Well, obviously he doesn't know about my transsexuality but MEH. Still makes me frown.

I notice that too, but it's not in a large amount I see male hair stylists, it depends.  What state are you in?

I am kind of worried about a class full of women too, and be treated oddly or something, but who knows...

[Tossu-sama]

I notice that too, but it's not in a large amount I see male hair stylists, it depends.  What state are you in?

I am kind of worried about a class full of women too, and be treated oddly or something, but who knows...

I actually live in Finland.

I came out as a trans during the last year of my vocational schooling so I had been seen as a female for the first two years. Lucky me, my class supervisor was a really nice guy as well as our other teachers and after small stumbling they started to use my male name when I said that's what I wanted. Never told my class anything about the whole transitioning - counting out those who I consider as close friends - so I can just imagine what they were thinking about... XD

I'd be personally more worried about a class full of guys, at least in Finland. Certain age guys tend to be extremely narrow-minded especially where I live. Couple douchebags of course started to pick on me, calling me a lesbian and so on (never directly to my face though, they wrote all that ->-bleeped-<- on walls). It was so pathetic it mostly made me laugh but my friends were horribly upset and angry about it.

These days all my co-workers are cismen but I flow through them stealthily like a ninja... The joys of being introduced with my male name even before it officially changing. And even if our supervisor is sometimes a real pain in the rear end, he was a very stand-up guy when I told him about my situation.