Women and men are commonly seen as having different strengths and weaknesses. Is it right to exclude males or females from certain professions because of their gender?

Males and females are often viewed as having differing skill sets. It is agreed that it is correct to exclude people from certain jobs on the basis of their gender, but only in very limited circumstances.

This

essay will

first

discuss how physical attributes prevent women from excelling

in particular

roles;

secondly

discuss how society at large rejects men from undertaking certain careers, followed by a reasoned conclusion. For many years the general consensus in the armed forces

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has been

that women should not be allowed to participate in combat missions.

This

is because most women lack the brute strength required for

this

particular occupation and it is,

therefore

, right to prevent them from joining the ranks.

For example

, the American Army recently allowed some women to fight on the front line and the Department of Defence deemed the experiment a failure, due to

lack

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a lack

of fighting effectiveness. Despite

this

, many women have fought in many wars, famously on the Eastern Front

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in

Russia and the Viet Cong in Vietnam, so maybe it

is men’s’

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means

is means

is meant

is mans

attitudes that prevent them performing rather than their stature. Society has yet to accept men in many

traditionally

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traditional

female positions,

such

as

nanny

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a nanny

nannies

or beautician. Businesses feel that it is fine to not hire men for these posts because most of their customers would not be willing to have a man perform that service. I personally know of one

example when

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example, when

a friend failed at the interview stage when applying to become

kindergarten teacher

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a kindergarten teacher

kindergarten teachers

because he was the wrong sex. To summarise, in limited

circumstances it

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circumstances, it

is just to prohibit people from certain occupations, but only if they cannot physically perform or if the general consensus is that it is a single sex post.