Men Were There First — Becoming One of Them!

Abstract

This chapter examines the proposition that women are being changed by the roles they feel obliged to take on in non-traditional occupations. It explores the impacts on women of hierarchies and the established and traditional ways of being a manager, academic, construction professional or priest laid down by men. Men were there first, and they have set down a male model for the occupation and profession. Therefore, some women, to achieve success on male terms, are conforming and changing, and becoming ‘honorary men’, and/or ‘queen bees’.

They look for carbon copies of themselves.

A Civil Service manager