Why do i only see women when i go to my local bank

[SwampG8r]

when all the management positions higher than a branch manager are held by men?
i googled up the board of directors for bank of america and chase
went to images
oddly the few with all or most/many of the board of directors of both companies are pics of them being sworn in in court or congress.
the banks are run by men almost exclusively yet when i do banking i only ever see women
maybe our banks need the iceland solution.


edited to add this link about the iceland banking solution
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,620544,00.html

[ensho]

1. because its a low paying job

nt

[Recursion]

2. Because it requires a degree

Women under 35 are out-earning men under 35, largely because they have more education and can get jobs in offices and banks.

[ensho]

3. tellers don't need a degree - unless you mean a Highschool degree?

nt

[Recursion]

13. I was thinking more the account reps at the desks, but every teller I know went to college

But, then again, women are also much more likely to get their high school diploma than men are, too, which is why women are doing better than men at the bottom, as well as the middle. Everywhere but the top, and that may well be generational.

[Nikia]

20. Teller position don't pay that well

I have not seen any teller job ads that have listed wages recently. Back in 2000, when I was graduating from college, I saw them advertised for $7.50-$8.00/hour. This was when unemployment was relatively low and retail and even fast food was paying around the same. Maybe a teller feels more professional than workers in these other occupations because she can wear nice clothes to work and may hope for advancement some day.

[Blue Meany]

4. They are pink-collar professions now. Ironically, a century or so

ago they were all considered professional jobs, were held by men, and paid middle-class wages with which the employee could support a family.

[DebJ]

10. I would use some word other than ironic. This is what happens

to every career in which women begin to dominate, because women are paid less than men.

[DebJ]

11. I would use some word other than ironic. This is what happens

to every career in which women begin to dominate, because women are paid less than men.

[NV Whino]

5. Real men don't do teller.

[ensho]

6. kick

nt

[ensho]

7. back in the '50s when I got out of H.S. my father said: don't work for

an insurance company or a bank because you will get low pay and little or no advancement

and he was a republican

[saras]

8. Welcome to America. The whole anti-sexism thing is so 70s. Haven't you heard?

As the famous book implied,
Men are from Mars, made to start wars
Women are from Venus, made to suck penis

Gender equality means that women get to murder as much as men do. It doesn't mean they get PAID the same for it.

need I add the :sarcasm: tag?

[DebJ]

9. You mean there is a job with pay equality???

[femrap]

14. Seeing what has happened to

our economy, I don't think most males should be allowed to even touch money.

Men like Jamie Dimon can't stand the thought of a woman heading a bank or Treasury...it would make him feel flaccid. I hope he goes to jail soon.

I agree with you about the '70's...it was better then than now. What a BACKLASH we are enduring.

[DebJ]

12. Politics and nepotism kick in once you get to higher salary and

higher power jobs. I worked for a bank in 1973-1974. One woman had run all of the sections of what was called the Proof Dept for many years. She was knowledgeable of everything in extreme detail. She managed people well, was well-liked and appreciated, and kept everyone moving at high speed and very efficiently. When the job above hers opened up, it went to someone from outside the bank, a white male (of course), who knew nothing about banking at all. But he had the right butts kissed. Everyone in the department was extremely upset. Not that our opinion meant anything. We were replaceable cogs; "human capital".

[The Straight Story]

15. Bank tellers used to be male, but changed because people argue less with women

or so I read in a book on the history of banking.

[sammytko]

16. My small town Tx bank (Wells Fargo branch) is 50/50

We've even had female bank president. I just spoke to one of the young bankers (female and immigrant from Mexico) who was leaving for a higher position at a Wells Fargo in San Antonio.

[B Calm]

17. They're out playing golf

[roody]

18. Same at my bank, same at Ross.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

19. One of my cousins was a teller for a Minneapolis bank that didn't hire

women for management positions.

Thanks to a class action suit, the bank was ordered to open management training to current tellers. My cousin applied and was trained as a loan officer, even though she never finished college.

No college degree, no MBA in Finance, and she did just fine, being promoted a couple of times before her husband got a job offer too good to refuse in another state.

Maybe it's time for another set of class action suits?

(Side note: If there's anything I hate about hiring practices in the last thirty years it's that companies have stopped hiring liberal arts grads and training them in-house, which was standard procedure until about 1980. As a result, business became the most popular college major almost overnight. At my alma mater, the business department also decreed which courses their majors would have to use to meet their general education requirements. It's not that the courses were bad in themselves; it was that they offered as narrow and pro-business view of the world. At the same time, most Federal aid for higher education was cut, and the only sure way for many students to afford college was ROTC, where they received a pro-military, pro-imperialism view of the world. Folks, there are your Republican voters.)