Women's and Men's Professions

This story will not be about occupational segregation, but rather about the fact that women and men are different not only from a physiological standpoint, but also in terms of perceptual characteristics. The last century started something of a plague called gender equality. Probably - not without reason. Yet in my mature male mind, something doesn't quite add up about the restriction tied to employee selection - namely, that one may not specify which gender of candidate is being sought. Ridiculous, isn't it?!

But... that's not what the story is about :) What do you think - are there distinctly female and male professions?

Here are some observations -

in favour of women:
- wider peripheral vision;
- more likely to acknowledge their mistakes;
- able to do several things at once (women's corpus callosum - the brain's connective tissue - is 10% thicker, connecting the left and right hemispheres and providing 30% more connections);
- better at distinguishing colours (women have more cone cells in the retina);
- better at reading body language and non-verbal signals;
- heightened perception of reality (which some consider the explanation for women's intuition);
- statistically live longer.

in favour of men:
- better spatial orientation abilities;
- able to prioritise problems;
- speak more briefly and concisely;
- by nature suspicious, ambitious, self-controlled;
- physically stronger (in cross-country skiing marathons, for instance, men ski ten kilometres more);
- authors of the majority of inventions, great discoveries, and artistic masterpieces.

Thinking it through, a few candidates crystallise for distinctly female and male professions.
For example,
female professions - kindergarten teacher, accountant, nanny, manicurist;
male professions - tractor driver, banker, programmer, pastor, andrologist.

An improvisation on life, or 100 reasons why it is harder to be a man than a woman:
  http://klab.lv/users/vineta/399628.html