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Re:Disclosure of autism at work holds risks and benefits by dmm on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @09:06AM (#18023862)
Women make up 51% of the US population so clearly men are a minority. Ha!

But really they probably mean a minority in a specific career or environment. For example, ~6% of truck drivers are female but only ~18% of primary and secondary teachers are male.

Re:Disclosure of autism at work holds risks and benefits by bb611 on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @09:19AM (#18023941)
Men are 42% of teachers at the high school level: https://www.aaeteachers.org/index.php/blog/757-the-teacher-g...

School administrators are overwhelming male: http://aasa.org/SchoolAdministratorArticle.aspx?id=14492

I'm male, and taught K-5 special education for 2.5 years in my first job out of college. Few men join the profession, and many of them leave for better paying jobs, but I think a huge part of it is society's willingness to make raising children women's work. This is the "oh Daddy is babysitting!" phenomenon happening at the professional level.

Re:Disclosure of autism at work holds risks and benefits by chapium on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @09:25AM (#18023979)
Majority/minority are not strictly numbers in this context. Its more about opportunities whose limiting factor is age/race/gender etc.
Re:Disclosure of autism at work holds risks and benefits by collyw on Thursday September 20, 2018 @03:52AM (#18030510)
I have yet to see decent evidence of limiting factor being race / gender where I work (in Europe). Age is a bit different as experience is closely tied to it.