I. MENS WORK?

Non-traditional Occupations for women, as defined by the U.S. Department of Labor, are jobs that few women do. That is, they are jobs that are generally considered men's work.
People grow and change over the course of their career lives. Some change careers a few times as a part of their personal evolution. It is difficult to predict how much success and satisfaction we will find in even the most carefully chosen occupation. The least we can do is to be sure that we have looked at every single possibility, and that we have not allowed ourselves to be unduly influenced away from the best of those possibilities.
This book exists because evidence shows that women are ignoring many career fields and are flooding other, often less promising ones. It exists to encourage all women, especially girls in their formative years, to look at all the jobs that most women never consider when they plan their futures. It is said that the happiest people know what they want, and then go out and get it. First, though, they must know and understand what there is.If the differentiating terms ‘Men’s Work’ and ‘Women’s Work’ are controversial--good. Indeed, no work should be the domain of one gender or the other. But the fact is: as it stands right now, there is huge difference between the kind of work done by men and that which women do. This book will draw attention to a body of occupations for which these terms are, at this time, disturbingly appropriate.