{"id":24232,"date":"2010-06-30T10:47:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T15:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=24232"},"modified":"2013-12-05T05:14:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T10:14:29","slug":"job-stereotyping-from-the-u-s-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/06\/30\/job-stereotyping-from-the-u-s-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Stereotyping from the U.S. Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AGM, while perusing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/oco\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics website<\/a> and discovered that the U.S. government has seen fit to illustrate various jobs with photographs.\u00a0 The photographs reveal quite dramatic assumptions about who does what jobs.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll let you be the judge as to what they are, in alphabetical order.<\/p>\n<p>Authors:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/authors.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24233\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/authors.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/authors.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/authors-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Child care workers:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/child-care-workers.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24234\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/child-care-workers.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cooks and Food Preparation Workers:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/cooks-and-food-preparation-workers.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24235\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/cooks-and-food-preparation-workers.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/cooks-and-food-preparation-workers.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/cooks-and-food-preparation-workers-326x500.jpg 326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dentists:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/dentists.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24237\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/dentists.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/dentists.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/dentists-338x500.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dental Assistants:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/dental-assistants.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24236\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/dental-assistants.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Executives:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/executives.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-5\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24238\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/executives.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/executives.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/executives-333x500.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Personal Appearance Workers:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/personal-appearance-workers.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-6\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24239\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/personal-appearance-workers.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicians:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/physicians.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-7\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24241\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/physicians.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physician and Medical Assistants (fixed):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/06\/pic_ocos_081.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-8\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24882\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/06\/pic_ocos_081.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/06\/pic_ocos_081.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/06\/pic_ocos_081-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/medical-assistants.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-9\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24240\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/medical-assistants.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Security Guards:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/security-guards.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-10\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24242\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/security-guards.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/security-guards.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/security-guards-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Sociologists!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/Sociologists.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-11\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24243\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/Sociologists.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AGM thought the picture of sociologists deserved the caption, &#8220;Sociologists have nothing but contempt for one other, both as scholars and as human beings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AGM, while perusing the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics website and discovered that the U.S. government has seen fit to illustrate various jobs with photographs.\u00a0 The photographs reveal quite dramatic assumptions about who does what jobs.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll let you be the judge as to what they are, in alphabetical order. Authors: Child care workers: Cooks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,2100,3920,304,285,76],"class_list":["post-24232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-gender-work","tag-nation-united-states","tag-the-state","tag-raceethnicity","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24232"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59978,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24232\/revisions\/59978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}