I chose to do my photo assignment on “gendered jobs.” Our society has decided who should be working what jobs, and that is wrong. It would make sense that a company would want to hire by talent and not by gender. If a woman is denied a job, like carpentry, because of her gender, that employer could have just let the person who would have been their best employee go. Not only does it limit the types of jobs a person could get because of their gender, but if they do land the job, it could cause them a lot of stress and unhappiness if the other workers are not accepting. I heard a story of a woman who was an engineer, and she had quit her job after working there for a few years because she couldn’t handle being in the environment anymore. The other male employees harassed her to her breaking point. So either a person becomes limited to their job choices, or they must deal with not being accepted and harassed to do the thing they love.

            This photo shows a woman doing a “man’s job.” She is successfully using a saw to cut a piece of wood for a project. She looks like she knows exactly what she is doing. In media, I usually see women doing these types of jobs being represented as “manly.” This woman in the photograph I took is dressed a little feminine. She is also a small woman and not a big, muscular woman. There is nothing wrong with a woman being big, muscular or “manly,” but there is something wrong with society and media saying only certain jobs belong to certain genders. And if you don’t follow those “rules,” then you have to act and look like that gender.