Should women do jobs that place them in physical danger?N give me some examples of these jobs.?

Answer 1

Whether any person reguardless of gender should take a dangerous job should be strictly up to them. Many, especially males thrive on the risk. For women it tends to just be stress. A man with a dangerous job is more of a man for doing such. It is adventure to them. While specific times might be stressful and even frightening, there are strong rewards for a man in a dangerous job. Women do not have this coping mechanism. Unresolved stress is very dangerous in itself to a person.

There are jobs for which women who are physically capable of adequetely performing the job are too few to justify the expense and tension created by allowing women to pursue these careers. Front line military is an example. Firefighting is another. Law enforcement as practiced today however isn't. The old school cops were expected to have a toughness and pursued that aspect. They did not arrest a suspect for taking a swing at them, they fought it out with the suspect and suspects didn't take the cops gun and shoot them if they won the fight. All of that has changed. Police work is rarely physical unless something goes badly wrong. If all the policies are upheld and normal circumstances apply then situations are not supposed to come to a point where sheer bulk muscle and body mass makes a difference.

With soldiering, it is not that a woman cannot learn how to shoot. Annie Oakley was one of the best shooters of her time. Women tend to be less aggressive. Enough that this lack of aggression is a problem in itself for a proffesion that boils down to killing people. Still there are women that are aggressive enough to be good soldiers. Women almost without exception view life by the letter of the law. So they tend to be more obedient than men who generally view life by the spirit of the law and feel that all situations are open to interpitation. In Western military units our strength has been this disobediance. Incompantence is the norm for the higher ranks in our militaries. That combined with the chaos of the battlefield gave Western armies a big edge against more organized enemies who's soldiers did nothing without proper orders.

The biggest problem boils down to sexual instincts. You are in a foxhole with somebody of the opposite sex. you don't know if you'll live another day. Why not indulge? Relationships with co-workers is always a bad idea. The reason is what happens if it goes wrong? Then your stuck in a bad situation. Now what happens with a relationship gone wrong between heavily armed people in the middle of a war zone?

Another aspect of this is for a military unit to survive in combat each man has to consider the others in his unit his brother. He has to be willing to lay down his life to save others in his unit. Now think about what happens when a woman doesn't like somebody. They often actively cultivate hostility towards that person. The campaign and they organize. That behavior is intolerable in a military unit on the front lines. It will get people killed. Men resolve disputes normally with physical violence. Women battle with social orders, with words. They count victory by isolating their opponent. When violent men are introduced to this kind of war people get hurt. Heavily armed people in a war zone will produce firefights within the same unit. It will tear apart the cohesivness. Why die for that ahole? She told me all about that sick SOB. See what I mean?

The number one cause of murder is jealousy. What happens if the woman has rejected the soldier two foxholes over? Friendly fire is a big enough problem without introducing relationships to the front lines.

Next as I mentioned, men have a coping mechanism for living with danger. The Machismo gained from surviving. Women don't have that. So they will be far more susceptible for PTSD and other stress related ailments.

Another problem with women on the front lines is that supplies are very limited and often inconsistent. To assume sex isn't happening on the front lines if you have mixed genders would be insane. So you add birth control to essential items that you have to transport. Also you add tampons for example. Women can survive without makeup, lipstick and such. A woman having a period without a tampon is going to be sheer torture for the woman and create major problems if she is wounded. It also produces a scent that can be detected much as Viet Kong were able to detect American deoderants, cigerrette smells, and so on.

Another major problem with women on the front lines is that many of our opponents have old fashioned societies. They will put up token resistance against a unit of strait men. They will feel dishonored if they are beaten by women or gays. So even if the American unit has none of these, if it might, then many opponents will fight all the harder. This means more casualties for both sides. A harder time taking objectives and sometimes even failing to do so. Why? Because we turned light resistance into fanatical resistance by an unnecessary choice of front line soliders.

We have more than enough male volenteers. We do not need to suppliment front line posisitions with women. Doing so only adds expense and problems.

As for firefighters. That is hard work. Really hard physical work. For a 150 lb woman to carry a 250 lb man down several flights of stairs or down a ladder is just not very practical. Firefighting is dangerous work. For women to be accepted as firefighters they had to dramatically drop the physical tests. This I see as wrong. It has probably killed people. There are too few women who are capable of the physical demands to warrent the seperate quarters that housing women in firehouses demand. If women are willing to just be a guy. Share sleeping, bathing and other accomadations then that is reasonable.

In theory there is no specific reason why women should not do dangerous jobs except for the lessor coping mechanisms for danger. In practicality there is a few problems. On ships, in firehouses and other male enclaves, there are things such as nude pics of women on the walls. The men could quickly adapt to a woman recipercating by putting a nude male pic on the wall. What is difficult to adjust too is the sterilization of quarters to accomadate women who MIGHT walk through. The whole sexual harrasment issue has been turned into an attack on men in general. If one woman shares the quarters with 30 men, she's going to have to adapt to a male world same as a man has to put up with annoynaces if he is quartered primarily with women. That is the biggest problem and the source of most opposisition to women in male dominated areas. The men can't speak freely any more. Cannot be a guy. They have to be some sterile role model. Be fake. Be polite. That is more stressful for a guy than facing danger. The kind of guy who takes a dangerous job willingly usually has as a major draw to the job the ability to just be a guy. To get away from all that fakeness that is modern society. Adding women brings that poison with them. While many women will adapt fine, all it takes is one to whine about a pic of a woman in a bikini and threaten a law suit and everybody has to act like sexless drones all the time at work. This inherit tendancy to organize and steralize the world around them that women have is valued at home but despised at work. So for women to truly be accepted in dangerous fields of work they have to understand that most women do not want this. So they will be a minority. Second they have to accept being in a male world when they decide to undertake such a career. Be a tomboy at work, be whatever they want away from work. Until then men will never trust women in such situations. They will be reserved and look for reasons to get rid of the intrustion so that they can go back to just being themselves. Like I said most women who decide to be race car drivers, steel workers, pilots, etc are women who have no problem adjusting. It just takes one to ruin things for both male and female alike. That and huge pressure from the male hating crowd who rarely have any interest in doing anything dangerous but want to dictate life on everybody.

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Answer 3

I worked as a corrections office in male prison for almost 3 years. I was in danger every time I stepped foot on the property. It was a dangerous job but you have to do what you have to do to pay the bills and keep money in your pocket.

The bigger question is, is there really such thing as "safe job"?? I now work at a desk sitting here typing for 12 hours a day. Who's to say that some disgruntled employee or some weirdo off the street can't walk in the door at any moment and blow my head off just because he is a having a bad day.

Answer 4

If they like it, feel it like a challenge, if they are trained and ready to take all risks, then who can tell them not to do it? What usually decides about "male" and "female" jobs is rather a salary than a risk level or severity. In some states for example, there are more policewomen than men, because the salaries are very low and men are loosing the interest, leaving more open positions for women. The same thing happens with taxi drivers and postmen/women who are exposed to attacks and robberies.

Answer 5

I work on a river barge line boat, I 'm the only female on the boat , I'm the cook .
and i am in as much physical danger as the men are.
If that boat cap-sides, sinks,crashes,blows-up. gets hi-jack , If I fall over Bord.

If I'm at the stove and the boat hits something not only will i get burned but a lot of things are going to come flying out of the cupboards at me.
Thers a risk in any job you do just some have more then others.
The thing is are thy paying us the same ? no there not.

Answer 6

We've lost several women in the war in Iraq while performing their military duties, we've lost female police officers, firefighters, construction workers, truck drivers, just about every occupation these days has safety issues that if they aren't followed can cost a human life.

In today's American Society no occupation is safe. There is too much violence. One would think a pharmacist in a drug store would be safe, yet, people with guns and drug habits have walked into a drug store shot the pharmacist, his female pharmacy tech and stolen drugs.

No workplace is safe for anyone.

Answer 7

The job one does should be a personal choice. If a woman choices to be in a profession that involves high risk, then so be it. Ofcourse, she should be well aware of the risk factor in her line of work as well as understand the sacrifices that come with such jobs.
Jobs that involve high risk are police/army/navy, fire-fighter, life guard etc.

Answer 8

If you're talking about decent but really dangerous jobs like police, military and firefighting, that's ok. They have the right to do so. Just be careful ok?

Answer 9

For some women, just being a girlfriend/spouse puts them in physical danger (husband beats, abuses, rapes them). Very often they die.

If you're not outraged by that notion, you're not paying attention.

Answer 10

the question really is should anybody man or woman. If they want to take the risk go for it. i dont see why anybody should have to place themselves in danger unless they are entirely willing to.

Answer 11

Women should do any job they feel like doing. Firefighters, Police, FBI...