Yea I worked at a retail store my first 2 years of college. I didn't mind doing the work because it kept me busy and made my day go by faster, but I did have the same exact conversations with the other male employees. It was an everything store--electronics, clothing, food, tools, etc. Everyone got paid the same amount of money. The girls' jobs were to operate the registers, assist customers, and straighten the store. The guys' jobs were to operate the registers, assist customers, straighten the store, clean up spills, carry out items to customers' cars, hang signs, go outside and round up shopping carts, unload merchandise that arrived on trucks and load it in the stock room, take out the merchandise from the stock room and put it on the shelves in its appropriate location. As you see, there was definitely a stereotype affecting how a person's job was dictated. It wasn't like one guy and ten girls working in an office and whenever someone needs a box lifted they ask the guy. It was an entire different set of duties because of gender. I also worked in an office for 2 years before I started college with mostly females and I was asked occasionally to do minor things because I was a male. That didn't bother me at all. I actually rather enjoyed it. It made me feel like a gentleman. However, what the OP is talking about and what I experienced is something totally different.
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