““The most significant issue has to do with young women, women reentering the workforce, and women in career transitions still getting the advice that the best entry into a field is through an administrative position,” Danna Greenberg, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Babson College in Boston, told Yahoo! Shine in an interview. “We would never tell a 21-year-old male college grad that the way into a job is to start in an administrative position. But we’re still, unfortunately, in this country, still stereotyping it as a fashionable place for women to start. And data shows that women don’t traditionally transition out of administration positions into more white-collar work.””
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The Most Common Job For Women in 2013 is still secretary, after all these years. (via nishachittal)
And….this is raced in key ways. Por eljemplo, Black working class parents in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s were excited for their college educated daughters to have receptionist jobs, as it was a “sit down job” and not one that entailed being a nanny, maid or housekeeper for a White family -RCJ
(via newmodelminority)