The article doing the dirty work talk about how jobs were gendered because women were the ones who did the light work and men the heavy. Doing the domestic work was part of the servants. The maid had to stay in the house but now they work outside private houses.
Time has pasted fast and now men also do the work that only women did before. They also clean bathrooms but what happen when there are people who still think that men can do the dirty work that women do such as cleaning bathrooms.
There was this man who was cleaning the bathroom and many people make fun of him. There are not many men who do this kind of job so other people think that it is embarrassing.
It also talk about how a person can get infected with the airborne germs and that laundry workers should separated clothes not in terms of color or fabric but in term of disease. Doing the dirty work is a job that requires a lot of care because the cleaners do not know the people that was there or used the clothes. Another point that the author does is that the job that teachers and nurses do is not recognized for the scholar because it is associate with the feminine character of relationship.
What i think is that people get the job that most of the time is available for them, it probably can be seem as a weird thing because people who are related to him/her never did this kind of job such as cleaning.
What we have to point out is that jobs were gendered but it cannot not longer stay like that. People have to value the work that other people make for them.
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