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That's a strange picture, considering how women have never pushed for equal representation in blue collar work or any of the 'shitty' jobs.
Idk, man, I work in a dirty southern US factory and half of our workers are women.
doubt
What unexamined emotional need does that fill for you?
I've been in a lot of blue collar environments in a previous career, and this is definitely something that happens. It's not normative, but you'll usually find a few construction companies or factories or warehouses in an area that employ a much more equally-gendered workforce.
We hire who will come in. Women have proven to be better coworkers than young men because they actually show up and do what they are supposed to. I've been here for nearly a decade, seen folks come and go, and I am less impressed with gen z every time they hire one, he can't show up on time two days in a row and hide all day when they are here, and get fired in a month. Everybody here gets the same chances. Nothing we do here is that hard, it's repetitive, not exciting, but not hard, and we pay above average for the area. It's always attendance that gets the guys too. Make it make sense.
Journey level construction worker here. Your statement is simply incorrect. This fight has been going on for decades. The EEOC did a report on this a couple years ago and found that women and black people either flatly denied work or are subjected to widespread discrimination, harassment and violence. I’ve seen years of this behavior everything from sexual assault to threats of lynching. https://19thnews.org/2023/07/construction-industry-women-people-of-color-discrimination/
One search for "women's rights blue collar" and I find this study, so, false. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26967056
Also, have you not heard of Rosie the Riveter? lol
Man, that woman got screwed over. Used as propaganda to rally women into factories, then after the war swept off and told to do "women work". I really do not understand how society can claim women are inferior, see them constantly prove otherwise, use them as necessary, then dismiss them quickly after. Countries have seen queens for centuries, and somehow the other women of those countries are deemed less than men.
I mean, on the point of queens, they were still usually regarded as lesser. Just more of a "lesser of greaters" type of deal if that makes sense. Highborn man>highborn woman>lowborn man
You know, you could always keep your dumbass mouth shut.
Women absolutely have pushed to break down barriers in the trades and blue collar fields. Women are also demeaned, under-considered, and sexually harassed every step along the way.
"Exactly, so why would they want to be there" -This guy probably
Not sure how it's elsewhere, but in Germany most woman in blue collar jobs quit within the first year of training, because they are not taken seriously by teachers and colleagues (not sure where i read this.. i think there was a study last year)
Man, people out here just lying what they feel like before doing a basic search. I have dumb ideas in my head from time to time too, but I look em up to see if I didn't just hear something wrong first.
just flat out lie out of nowhere lol. lay off the podcasts for a while
Bruh, I hope you're gay because you aren't getting any pussy spewing garbage like that out of your mouth
Incel chimes in
Not at all true, there are certainly organisations pushing for equality for women in blue collar work. First search engine result
Search query. Who's helping women with blue collar jobs. Whoa! first results tells me women are being helped with blue collar jobs. Hmm, I wonder why helping women with blue collar jobs was an article in the first place. I'm sure there wasn't a problem before the article.
A problem like widespread sexism in the industry? smh
What?
Weird, I guess I just hallucinated that presentation, put on by a painter(the kind who paints several kilometer long bridges)(who was a woman), I saw that included a part about encouraging the women in the room to get into trades.
Idiot.