‘Low Status’ Work?

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To the Editor:

Re “Race and Class Define Men Who Take ‘Women’s Jobs’ ” (The Upshot, March 10):

Who gets to decide what a “low status” or “low value” job is? I’ll bet that when loved ones have need of a nurse’s aide, home health aide or other such caregiver, that person will be one of the most valuable people in their lives.

These jobs are not low value; they are low paid, and unfairly so.

TERESA SVENDSGAARDPLEASANTVILLE, N.Y.

The writer is a program assistant at My Second Home, an intergenerational adult day center.