Tolerance

As a school, the first day of each week we study character traits in our connections class. We are currently talking about tolerance. For today's activity I attempted to discuss traditional vs. non-traditional jobs and how tolerance is important within both. I went on to explain that there are certain jobs that are more often worked by males or females. Beside a list of jobs, I had the students write a M, F or X, assigning whether they thought an activity/job was typically masculine, feminine, or either (x). In order to get the blood flowing a bit I had them move from place to place around the room according to what they chose...
studying music
being interested in clothes
washing dishes
taking out the garbage...

Closing our conversation I asked the following:

"What are the advantages and disadvantages of working in a job where you are a minority? For instance, if you were a female mechanic, in a guy's world, what would be a benefit or challenge of this?"

One student gave a classic answer as he shook his head from side to side: Well, the men would benefit because they wouldn't hear all the nagging, nagging, nagging.

Didn't exactly answer the question...