Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Cannot work without college degree?

These days, I often hear people cannot get better job without college degree. Especially when people talk about people in the sex industry, they say "people who work for the sex industry do not have opportunity to work in the other fields because they only have high school degree or even drop out of high school. I would think they are mainly talk about women who work in the industry. However, I believe that people who do not have college degree should not be treated that way.

Of course, people who have college degree have to be treated special when they get job because they might have better skills compared to people who have never had college education. However, that does not mean people who only have high school degree or drop out of high school only have chance to work for sex industry. I think this is one of the discrimination against women.

I actually have never heard people talking about men who do not have college degree have to work for the sex industry. I assume men's rights are always respected compared to women. Women's rights should be respected as men.

In Japan, for instance, people could never write "men are required for this job" any more. People try to respect women's job opportunity, too. Even though people try something to make women's job opportunity better, it is still hard to have equal society for women. But it is getting better is sure thing.

In Sweden, people treat the part time workers as same as full time workers. This means companies offer the same insurance system and holidays for part time workers who are usually women.

I hope women's job opportunity will be respected and be better in the future.

1 comment:

  1. The sex industry is definitely an accepting workplace for uneducated women, and manual labor seems to be the most available form of work for uneducated men. I'd be curious too to see what the average education level is for sex workers, both women and men.

    And it's interesting how privilege is assigned, not only based on gender but on ability as well. I hadn't thought about that in awhile. While I agree that having a college education should yield different career opportunities because of one's proven qualifications and knowledge of a given field, I also wish that there were more opportunities for people without degrees.

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