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- - - - Nurses, often men in the early days of the profession, were redefined as nurturers when women swelled their ranks; secretaries, once exclusively men, yielded to the dexterous fingers of women who typed and were recast as “the sunshine of the office,” Professor Kessler-Harris said.(Chira, paragraph 10)
  - - - These jobs often paid less, while the ones requiring physical strength paid more. When women were needed during World War II, cutting sheet metal was likened to cutting a pattern through cloth, and welding to opening an orange juice can, she said. Then after the war, men reclaimed these jobs and most women were exiled back to the kitchen.(Chira, paragraph 11)
    - - Although many of the earliest factory jobs in places like textile mills were held by women who could be spared from the farm, men reserved many of the highest-status, highest paying jobs.(Chira, paragraph 9)
- - - - Then he’d rebel. If the official high school culture was über-nurturing, he’d be über-crude.(Brooks, paragraph 5)
    - - He’d get in a serious wrestling match with his buddy Falstaff, and, by the time he got him in a headlock, there’d be suspensions all around.(Brooks, paragraph 3)
  - - - The information age rewards people who mature early, who are verbally and socially sophisticated, who can control their impulses. Girls may, on average, do better at these things.(Brooks, paragraph 11)