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Last week I asked two of my friends, a boy and a girl, to draw a picture of a truck driver, a doctor, a nurse and a kindergarten teacher. The results have been surprisingly very much alike, nearly the same:
-The image of a truckdriver was a big, with a powerful arms, young man. One of the two was smoking a cigarette and drinking something
-The doctor was represented as a peaceful, good-natured, elegant and middle aged man, of course, with glasses.
-The nurse was a young girl, beautiful, smiling wearing a mini-skirt.
-Finally the kindergarten teacher was obviously a woman,in one case very young, with glasses and a bit fat, and in the other a tiny old lady with a nervous face and glasses too.
To tell you the truth, I believe that the real problem is not the sexual discrimination, but the stereotypes that made us imagine a woman or a men when someone talks about a particular job.

I agree with your friends, I also imagine the truckers as tough men and nurses as sexy women. Probably 90% of the image is due to education, and 10% that there is some truth in it.

I agree with you, too, since four of my friends drew nearly the same.
They drew a man as a truck driver and as a doctor. In all pictures, the truck driver was a fat man and the doctor was an elderly man with glasses.
On the other hand, they drew a woman as a nurse and as a kindergarten teacher. All them, drew an attractive nurse and a middle age kindergarten teacher. Even nowadays we live in a sexist society!