Women's Work - Page 2

China Cat Sunflower · 06-04-2008, 06:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Garnet

I have held a "traditionally male" blue collar job for 29 years.

I'm a sewage treatment plant operator.

Because the plant I work at has aspects/divisions that don't exist at other plants, there have been a couple of times when I could say I was the first/only woman to hold my job. That isn't so any longer, although there are few women doing my kind of work (at least where I work).

Did you start out as a poop scraper third class and work your way up, or how does that work in the sewage world? (I'm imagining the plot of a Horatio Alger story here) "Why, when I first started here we didn't have gloves. You scraped the pipes with your own fingernails- and liked it."

Chris

greymare · 06-04-2008, 09:15 AM

oh, puss puss, you have a wicked sense of humour.

17th Angel · 06-04-2008, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by China Cat Sunflower

I agree that pregnancy and breastfeeding are women's work. Wil says firefighting is men's work. My oldest girl had a male first grade teacher this last year. I thought that was interesting. I work in the trades. There are almost no women in the trades. No carpenters, drywallers, electricians, Hvac people. There are almost no female auto mechanics. I mean, I'm sure there are some, but I never see them. OTOH schools and hospitals are absolutely dominated by females.

There are, of course, dangerous and strenuous jobs in the trades, but most aren't. Same goes with police, fire, and military occupations. Girls want to be cops and fire fighters, but no girls want to change tires or hang drywall for a living. So ingrained is the gender role stereotype in these occupations that young women don't even consider applying. Not because it's a bad job or too hard, but because they've never even thought of it. And, well, not to mention that these jobs are well inside the good ole boy perimeter.

How does the division of chores come down in your family or relationship? Is it like Thomas'? What does that say about how far we've come toward, and how much we actually value sexual equality.

Chris

1) My lady is a qualified mechanic.... At a high level. as well as electrician, and better than most males at DIY...
2) I have a sister who is a Major in the Army.

So yeah you may say you don't see it, but they are there, and in most cases they are equal to the male ability or better

greymare · 06-04-2008, 10:37 AM

alex, your lady is a champion. I like her already.

17th Angel · 06-04-2008, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by greymare

alex, your lady is a champion. I like her already.

We've always lived by "try and fix it yourself and learn before paying another." lol.... (Got a book on how to repair over 2,000 house hold items.) This is a lady who asked for a toolbox for her birthday lol... And got a powerdrill for christmas :P I would admit she is better than me, although I naturally would prefer to think I am.

Tao_Equus · 06-04-2008, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex P

We've always lived by "try and fix it yourself and learn before paying another." lol.... (Got a book on how to repair over 2,000 house hold items.) This is a lady who asked for a toolbox for her birthday lol... And got a powerdrill for christmas :P I would admit she is better than me, although I naturally would prefer to think I am.

Hmmmm power drill..... never heard it called that before

17th Angel · 06-04-2008, 10:57 AM

Yes... Because that is, what it was...

Tao_Equus · 06-04-2008, 11:00 AM

multi-speed?

greymare · 06-04-2008, 11:44 AM

I once got a whipper snipper for mothers day.

17th Angel · 06-04-2008, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by greymare

I once got a whipper snipper for mothers day.

What is one of they?

greymare · 06-04-2008, 11:55 AM

oh, ummm. weed trimmer. (not your weed)
cuts edges of grass, you know that grows along fences, ddriveways, gardens etc.......

greymare · 06-04-2008, 12:23 PM

"I dont mind living in a Mans World, as long as I can be a woman in it"

wil · 06-04-2008, 03:11 PM

I've run into one female drywall hanger, she came from the Ukraine. Union though, she wouldn't make it in a piece work world. A number of electricians and plumbers over the years, a few carpenters, one cement finisher too! Quite a few painters, and drywall finishers. But it is a rarity in the trades, and they don't all last long, no political correctness yet on the construction site, if they can't keep up with the rude and crude they move on...

juantoo3 · 06-05-2008, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by China Cat Sunflower

Is there such a thing as "women's work"? How about "men's work"?

What's this?

How dare you even write on this subject, you unenlightened heathen you...

http://www.comparative-religion.com/...ality-998.html

17th Angel · 06-05-2008, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by wil

I've run into one female drywall hanger, she came from the Ukraine. Union though, she wouldn't make it in a piece work world. A number of electricians and plumbers over the years, a few carpenters, one cement finisher too! Quite a few painters, and drywall finishers. But it is a rarity in the trades, and they don't all last long, no political correctness yet on the construction site, if they can't keep up with the rude and crude they move on...

Sounds a bit like Fran Stalinofskivitchdavitovichsky..... (From Romanovia)

YouTube - Introducing the Purple Cobras (not great quality and doesn't play up to the funny "I think that guy is really dead." moment but still goooood.)