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Thursday, 29 December 2011
Girls want 'boy' jobs
Forget being a footballer's wife, girls want to do tough jobs.
A new survey has found that girls want more traditional 'boy' jobs when they grow up.
The survey found that girls want to be more like England captain Faye Whitethan than pop star Cheryl Cole.
The Communities and Local Government’s Ordinary People, Extraordinary Careers survey found that one third of girls aged 14-16 want to have a stereotypically ‘male’ job when they’re older. The top career is police officer, followed by footballer, soldier and firefighter. The girls questioned said their number one role model is Cheryl Cole but that doesn’t mean they want to go into show business.
The survey also found that eight out of ten girls think women should be able to do every job and be treated the same as men if they do a stereotypically male job.
The top ten jobs in order are police officer, footballer, soldier, firefighter, electrician, plumber, astronaut, politician, racing driver and pilot.
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vaidehi011 (Age 8) wrote on Thursday, 29 December 2011 @ 16:57
Cake boss is my favirouit role modle and i want to be a cake baker.
vaidehi011 (Age 8) wrote on Thursday, 29 December 2011 @ 16:57
Cake boss is my favirouit role modle and i want to be a cake baker.
vaidehi011 (Age 8) wrote on Thursday, 29 December 2011 @ 16:58
My favourite role model is cakeboss , and i would like to become a cake designer
shoeless27 (Age 10) wrote on Friday, 30 December 2011 @ 19:32
Ok... Y does everybody put everything twice??? Anyway, I agree. I DO NOT want to be a ballerina or a farmer or footballers wife. I want to be somebody!
Nosequeen (Age 11) wrote on Saturday, 31 December 2011 @ 16:28
It's not fair boys always get to be all big and famous cos we girls do a lot too! I mean girlls always try
nicpick (Age 9) wrote on Sunday, 1 January 2012 @ 13:07
it is not fair the boys can do jobs that girls do but the girls can not do jobs boys do!
amvie (Age 13) wrote on Monday, 2 January 2012 @ 12:59
People shouldn't be stereotypical because it is just not right. some people don't think about their jobs thoroughly, e.g. I said when I was younger I wanted to be an artist because I loved art but right now I want to become a doctor. If I said "what gender would you think of when I said doctor?" mainly people think male.
charan (Age 13) wrote on Tuesday, 3 January 2012 @ 11:34
I would like to be a publisher, journalist or musician.
superdog7 (Age 12) wrote on Tuesday, 3 January 2012 @ 14:39
me to charan or some thing sporty
lucyluxxxx (Age 10) wrote on Wednesday, 4 April 2012 @ 09:58
I think you should be allowed to do what ever job you want and it doesn't matter if people say it is a boy job and girls want to do it. Even boys ,if they want to, can do a job more for a girl!