Pink Collar Job Growth is Outpacing Blue Collar Job Growth

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There are some decent-paying jobs on the list that require two years or less of schooling i.e. paralegal and dental hygienist. Nursing is increasingly requiring a BSN, but there is a small increase of men entering this field. I don't know why someone would choose to struggle instead of doing a "woman's" job. When women were rarely allowed to have a job, men were in these types of occupations. Only when women started to dominate these positions did pay go down and people started looking down upon the work.

Dental hygienists spend half the time in school and make only $10k less than mechanical engineers. Dental hygienists make tens of thousands more than the trades people always talk about. When you consider how long it takes to become a journeyman, becoming a dental hygienist is a lot faster.

My grandmother became a dental hygienist in her 40s, and while it has been extremely demanding work, it enabled her to provide not only for herself and her immediate family, but also for my family as I was growing up. It paid well, and her work ethic pushed her to the very top of her profession (she served as the chair of the dental hygiene board at one point). Her program was a weird one though, in that she had to take two years of pre-requisites in order to get into the two year RDH program.