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Gender Equality
If you have walked through a corporate office anytime in the past 20 years, you might have noticed that women are over-represented in the cubicle world. The breakdown may vary from department to department, but there are more women than men working office jobs. Sure, most large corporations will still have some sort of women’s empowerment group where the ladies can get together, pretend it is still 1960, and pat themselves on the back because they are true professionals and not just secretaries. Despite the numbers, we are still supposed to believe this is a big deal.
But what about outside the office? This year I have had to hire a plumber, a roofer, a painter, a carpenter, a landscaper, and a septic tank pumper for various jobs at my house and my mother’s vacation home. In each case, the workers who showed up to do those jobs were men. 100% of them. Now, maybe I just hire bigoted contractors? Could be, but I assure you none of them mentioned misogyny on their business cards.
Could it be that men and women have different interests and aptitudes? And perhaps, these differences are based in biology? Just spitballing here, but if women are complaining about not having enough CEO jobs, shouldn’t they also complain about how few of them have jobs emptying Porta-Potties? Equality is a two-way street.
Anyway, I got to go. The wife is out mowing the lawn and I don’t like the way she is doing the edging.
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Mechanization is changing some of the opportunities the guys mentioned in the video.
I enjoy farming videos, many of which are made by women. Through the wonders of Diesel engines, hydraulics, pneumatics, and computerized control systems one small woman can do work that not long ago took a large team of big men.
When the house next door to me was being constructed, I took note that a propane powered forklift using hydraulic lift allowed a small young woman to unload an entire truckload of bricks in just a few minutes.
That’s the money quote in the OP.
If the question or whatever, was, a female baggage handler LOADING OR UNLOADING commercials airlines, then no, you didn’t see one. Not if she was just standing there.
My year has been comparable to yours: I have had a porch rebuilt, new siding, new roofing, and a new window installed, electrical work done at home and in my art gallery, a new toilet put in, an exterior staircase to a room above the garage built, and massive corrective plumbing done. Every single worker was a guy.
I’ve noticed too that when we’ve gone through construction zones on I-90 in South Dakota, in blazingly hot summer temps, if there are women present they are holding the traffic control signs.
The joys of home ownership. You want to plan and budget, but some projects (like a leaky roof) just can’t wait.
No point wasting a guy on that.
I’ve seen plenty of people of both sexes do that job. I often stop and talk to them when I come up on them while bicycling. If there is a line of vehicles I can easily get to the front and ask them about any special information for getting through on a bicycle, and maybe chat about the project in general. Usually there is no problem, but one time on US-52 in North Dakota they insisted on my putting my bicycle in the pilot vehicle (in the back of the pickup) and getting a ride through.
I’ve ridden my bicycle on I-90 in South Dakota, too. It wasn’t the most pleasant place to ride, and not all the drivers were aware that in some places in some western states (including SD) it’s OK for bicycles to ride on interstate shoulders if the alternative, parallel routes are closed. So I had a few people honk at me. Maybe it brought a little joy into their lives.
I criticized my wife’s work painting the living room. I just got out of the hospital last week.
Which to be fair is probably one of the worst jobs on the crew…
id like to see a legally enforceable quota that no more than 50% of the employees in any corporate HR department can be female. That would solve a lot of problems.
I had no idea one could bicycle on I-90 in South Dakota!
That might very well limit HR departments to 2 people. Win!
This was east of Mitchell, where the parallel road I had planned to take was closed for construction.
In states where it’s allowed, it usually isn’t allowed close to urban areas, but in urban areas there are almost always alternate roads to take. Some of the urban exits have signs reminding bicyclers that they need to get off and aren’t allowed to proceed on the interstate.
If I read Revelation properly, He plans to do just that.
Oh! If only. HR women are a menace.
How many should have the status of Political Kommissar?