I work in the trades, semi-skilled. I think we're about 5% female and that might be a high estimate.
IMHO as a helper or second hand every female trainee was better than a male, but no one's hiring for that they're hiring for future lead hands because attrition is so bad.
Women just don't have the physical strength for being a lead. You're 100% responsible for all safety, including setting up staging and equipment. You can't not be capable of setting everything up, because you can't in good conscience ask someone new to climb something you can't set up safely.
I'm a fat ass couldn't(/wouldn't) do a pull up to save my life, but I've got eye witnesses who can confirm I can do a 1 armed pull up with a 100lb window cause those chimp brained fuckwits screwed up on the hand-off and the guy who was only supposed to put a screw in ended up doing the whole lift from the wrong side. So I say shit like "you need to be stronger than your body is" cause i tore my bicep doing that.
So just like with the military, can women do the work? Yeah absolutely. Can they do the job? No. Cause the job is everyone going home at the end of the day where everything went horribly wrong, and it will require everything you have and more, and you're not getting there if you're naturally deficient.
And my job doesn't involve people actually trying to murder me. I mean, except that one time.
Gotta bring equity and inclusion to insults, if you're using simple slurs you're not putting enough heart into it. Unfortunately can't use too complex of a vocabulary because most of them didn't pass high school.
I work in the trades, semi-skilled. I think we're about 5% female and that might be a high estimate.
IMHO as a helper or second hand every female trainee was better than a male, but no one's hiring for that they're hiring for future lead hands because attrition is so bad.
Women just don't have the physical strength for being a lead. You're 100% responsible for all safety, including setting up staging and equipment. You can't not be capable of setting everything up, because you can't in good conscience ask someone new to climb something you can't set up safely.
I'm a fat ass couldn't(/wouldn't) do a pull up to save my life, but I've got eye witnesses who can confirm I can do a 1 armed pull up with a 100lb window cause those chimp brained fuckwits screwed up on the hand-off and the guy who was only supposed to put a screw in ended up doing the whole lift from the wrong side. So I say shit like "you need to be stronger than your body is" cause i tore my bicep doing that.
So just like with the military, can women do the work? Yeah absolutely. Can they do the job? No. Cause the job is everyone going home at the end of the day where everything went horribly wrong, and it will require everything you have and more, and you're not getting there if you're naturally deficient.
And my job doesn't involve people actually trying to murder me. I mean, except that one time.
Writing that one down.
You're welcome.
Gotta bring equity and inclusion to insults, if you're using simple slurs you're not putting enough heart into it. Unfortunately can't use too complex of a vocabulary because most of them didn't pass high school.