Female workers' acceptance in traditionally male-dominated blue-collar jobs is a article written by Hellen T Palmer and Jo Ann Lee. The article explains how women are not treated as fair as the male workers are in Blue-Collar Jobs.
In Palmer's and Lee's article they had taken surveys that were completed by 53 male supervisors and 327 male co-workers of four departments of a large government agency. All of the male supervisors claimed they didn't treat female workers any different than they treated the male workers. Although, the male co-workers claimed that they treated other male co-workers more favorably than female co-workers. Even though the supervisors may not mistreat female employees, if the male co-workers do, it still leaves a negative impact on the female workers. More than likely female blue-collar workers are not treated as well as male blue-collar workers is because its always been know as a tradition and more acceptable for a man to do the rough and dirty work.
Also Palmer and Lee said, supervisors, compared with male co-workers, reported more favorable attitudes toward female workers. So unlike the male co-workers, supervisors, prefer female workers over men. Supervisors don't actually have to work with the females unlike the male co-workers. So they don't have a problem with the females, but the men that have to work with the females probably feel insulted by the fact that a women can do the same work as a man. Its nothing against women but its always been known that the man does the hard blue-collar work to support their family. But times are changing and women have changed, so the male co-workers shouldn't favor other male co-workers over women co-workers because women blue-collar workers are no different than male blue-collar workers.Being a blue-collar worker is tough, but someone has to do it and it doesn't matter if that someone is a male or female. Both male and female workers should be treated and accepted equally by their boss and by each other.
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