Titles Don’t Always Count

Abstract

Generally women hold different posts to men in non-traditional occupations. They do different types of work in different proportions to men, and take on different roles even within the same occupation. An example of this among women academics and priests is performing more pastoral and caring work. This can be either self-imposed, and/or enforced or reinforced by the expectations of colleagues, managers, clients and customers. The key question then is whether women, by taking on different roles and different ways of doing the job, change the way the occupation is organised and practised?

I think we sometimes get the ‘women’s problems’ cases and more pastoral work, while the men think they’re doing the ‘important’ work of decision-making!

A priest