How Do We Imagine Our Social Connections with a Larger Community

Personally, I feel like in order to make a change that will shine a better light on males going in to careers that are held more commonly by women it has to start small. Mostly I feel like there is an opportunity to have role models for younger generations that can show them what these type of roles mean. I think the key would be finding some males that have success in some of the aforementioned roles and having them talk to high school kids or some younger college students and letting them know what it could get them. I know for me, to have something really hit home I need to see someone like me that has done it. It’s easy to sit and talk about something and say why someone should or shouldn’t do something, but it’s way more impactful if it comes from someone we can connect with. In this day and age social media can be our biggest asset as word of something can spread like wildfire. All it would take is someone that another person may look up to saying, hey I decided to become a nurse or a teacher, or a hair stylist to really drive that point home. As with most things if you want it to scale to a larger group it is important to start small and make yourself active and available within the community. The old saying practice what you preach really comes in to play as it is a lot easier to convince someone to follow in your footsteps if you are doing it as well. One way to really get it started would be to connect with others who might have similar questions or beliefs about it and start a small group. Once that is done it could spread from there, be it city, state, countrywide or even global.

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