Male DLers: Do you work in a "rainbow-collar" job or in a professional field that is dominated by women?

I work in a library that is 80% women. I'm the only gay man on staff, the rest are all white guys married to Asian women or Asian guys married to Asian women.

Librarian (or any library job) would definitely rate as a "Professional job in a field that is heavily female"

Ditto teaching elementary school.

Do you have any female co-workers at the genius factory R2?

No.

I work in manufacturing. I'm the only gay guy among 250 production employees. There's a dozen lesbians though.

An angry librarian at that.

Too many people not speaking in a whisper today perhaps?

Is "production employee" someone who works on the assembly line?

"They needed us before that damn internet came along! You wanted to know something? You had to know the Dewey Decimal System! Now, all you have to do is ask fucking Alexa. It's a crying shame I tell you! What's next? Self-driving cars????"

Work in a male dominated field and very good at what I do. Out to everyone.

Librarians are actually well-suited to navigating the new information age R7.

And "production employee" is another way of saying "Amazon picker".

So close to one-third of DLers responding to this poll admit to working in a female-dominated professions.

And no one is a shop bottom.

My boss and most of my co-workers are women. I'm not a professional, just an hourly wage slave. But I like my boss and my co-workers, and they like me. And yes, I'm an out gay man.

Would we call advertising female-dominated? There are a lot of high-power female advertising execs, but I wouldn't say it is female-dominated.

You probably out-earn the librarian R11.

And I guess it would depend on what your job actually was R12, but advertising itself still seems to attract a goodly percentage of straight men.

"rainbow-collar"?

Don't you mean "pink collar"? That's what it's always been called before.

I agree that "rainbow collar" just sounds stupid.

I've heard "pink-collar" before, but I assume it meant women-dominated professions, not gay males.

"Rainbow-collar" jobs are jobs that gay men have traditionally been stereotyped as having, not women. "Pink collar" is something else.

I retired as an Executive Assistant to an officer in a "Fortune Top Ten." They needed a man to meet the EEO requirements. My assistants were women.

Pink collar are female jobs

I'm in PR - which is dominated by women - except in some of the high positions in the big PR agencies. I work in professional services - in the marketing dept - and there are only 3 men out of 30 total employees. I'm the only homo as far as I know, No dykes.

I'm in a blue-collar industry (I deliver beverages to restaurants and bars). There is only one woman the warehouse (she is in the business office). I'm the only out gay among the 60 or so warehouse workers/drivers. Most of my coworkers drive pickups, drink Bud Light, and listen to country music. I'm likely the only driver in the warehouse whose delivery truck radio is tuned to NPR.

No one seems to give a damn that I am gay.

Social services is another job dominated by women and POC, but most of the CEO's tend to be white men.

Shush, R5!

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