Roofers, Steelworkers, Gandy Dancers, Lumber Jacks, Professional Fishermen, Slaughter Houses, etc.
Hershel Pasternak
April 30, 2016 12:39 pm
And all the female dominated professions like nursing and teaching, no attempt to even the numbers.
Bostonbob
April 30, 2016 12:50 pm
RHS,
Sidewallers, Framers, Plasterers, concrete form workers, excavation crews, tree cutters, electricians, plumbers, HVAC guys, need I go on. You can go on to any of our seven active job sites and count on one hand with several fingers left as to how many women are working in the field in residential construction. Dirty, sweaty hard work, someone has to do it. Surprisingly fewer south of the border crews than you might expect, but we do insist that they all have legit papers, though even these can be faked.
Bob.
sangell
April 30, 2016 1:24 pm
Male life expectancy 76.2 years. Females 80.95 years
Why is this not reflected in retirement ages or pension payments?
jamesthewanderer
April 30, 2016 1:31 pm
HAZMAT, chemical plant workers, spill and environmental remediation crews, asbestos removal, nuclear operations. If it’s dark, dirty and dangerous, it’s male labor, most of the time.
There are exceptions: my replacement as an engineer in an operating oil refinery was female. The first day I was showing her what I did: go out on the unit, collect data and observe the equipment, listen for leaking gas lines (hopefully compressed air and nitrogen!), take readings. All was OK until it was time to climb the ladders to get up underneath the fin-fan heat exchangers, some 35 feet up off the ground. She was afraid of heights.
“Why didn’t you tell us when you interviewed?” I shouted, to be heard over the equipment.
“I thought I could get over it, and I need the job!” she shouted back.
“You’ve got to be able to climb ladders to do this job!”
“If you climb the ladder right behind me, I might be able to make it!”
We did; I let her get four rungs above me (we’re all wearing coveralls, about as sexy as military fatigues, you perverts!) and came up behind. She was pale-faced and breathing hard, but she made it. I kept it up for about a week and a half, and she did indeed conquer her fears (“Yes, it’s a grating, but it’s nearly two inches thick, supported on six-inch I-beams, and is solid as a rock even in this wind! You will not fall!”) and became a good plant engineer.
She is the rare exception in twenty years of industrial experience.
card802
April 30, 2016 1:59 pm
I was working on the new power plant at the local paper mill back in the 80’s.
There was a woman (mid 20’s) union carpenter apprentice that had long dark hair, long legs in tight jeans, plaid shirt unbuttoned just below her beautiful full breasts, a white shirt and no bra.
Her nipple were always so hard you could hang your hardhat on them.
I followed her up six flights of steel stairs with 10 gals of paint while she carried two sheets of 4×8 1/2 plywood. My face was level with her backside all the way up, at the top floor she apologized for going so slow.
I laughed and said she provided my motivation to keep going. Not sure if she took that to be for me to keep up with her, or I was mesmerized by her tight ass, it was both really.
Union bossman told her she had to wear a bra as he felt her nipples were causing a distraction, she wore a bra the next day but she cut out the front of it so her nipples still showed.
A real woman makin’ it in a mans world.
starfcker
April 30, 2016 2:12 pm
We’re all equal until someone has to unload the groceries from the car.
Ed
April 30, 2016 3:40 pm
Steeplejacks…….wondering if there has ever been a woman steeplejack in history.
Bea Lever
April 30, 2016 6:04 pm
Star- Ain’t that just the truth……..LOL
Ottomatik
April 30, 2016 6:28 pm
In 25 years ive not seen a female roofer.
WrenX
May 1, 2016 1:23 am
James, you’ve hit it. I painted houses in college–but I was afraid to work on ladders. Mustafa, the very kind Turkish guy who was our crew boss, was sympathetic. He didn’t have a US drivers’ licence–I picked him up every morning. “Just scrape down there”–he’d point–I scraped every base board and kneewall our crew painted. He balanced off ladders three stories up. Great guy–I was very grateful–and I dealt with the clients, as they assumed he could not speak English.
Not one woman in 10 is cut out for men’s work. I wasn’t–just barely scraped by–and am grateful to every man who fixes things, delivers appliances to my house, and keeps the whole technological field going.
Mesomorph
May 1, 2016 5:58 pm
I wonder if gender equality is enforced on a certain $16,000000 security detail?
Roofers, Steelworkers, Gandy Dancers, Lumber Jacks, Professional Fishermen, Slaughter Houses, etc.
And all the female dominated professions like nursing and teaching, no attempt to even the numbers.
RHS,
Sidewallers, Framers, Plasterers, concrete form workers, excavation crews, tree cutters, electricians, plumbers, HVAC guys, need I go on. You can go on to any of our seven active job sites and count on one hand with several fingers left as to how many women are working in the field in residential construction. Dirty, sweaty hard work, someone has to do it. Surprisingly fewer south of the border crews than you might expect, but we do insist that they all have legit papers, though even these can be faked.
Bob.
Male life expectancy 76.2 years. Females 80.95 years
Why is this not reflected in retirement ages or pension payments?
HAZMAT, chemical plant workers, spill and environmental remediation crews, asbestos removal, nuclear operations. If it’s dark, dirty and dangerous, it’s male labor, most of the time.
There are exceptions: my replacement as an engineer in an operating oil refinery was female. The first day I was showing her what I did: go out on the unit, collect data and observe the equipment, listen for leaking gas lines (hopefully compressed air and nitrogen!), take readings. All was OK until it was time to climb the ladders to get up underneath the fin-fan heat exchangers, some 35 feet up off the ground. She was afraid of heights.
“Why didn’t you tell us when you interviewed?” I shouted, to be heard over the equipment.
“I thought I could get over it, and I need the job!” she shouted back.
“You’ve got to be able to climb ladders to do this job!”
“If you climb the ladder right behind me, I might be able to make it!”
We did; I let her get four rungs above me (we’re all wearing coveralls, about as sexy as military fatigues, you perverts!) and came up behind. She was pale-faced and breathing hard, but she made it. I kept it up for about a week and a half, and she did indeed conquer her fears (“Yes, it’s a grating, but it’s nearly two inches thick, supported on six-inch I-beams, and is solid as a rock even in this wind! You will not fall!”) and became a good plant engineer.
She is the rare exception in twenty years of industrial experience.
I was working on the new power plant at the local paper mill back in the 80’s.
There was a woman (mid 20’s) union carpenter apprentice that had long dark hair, long legs in tight jeans, plaid shirt unbuttoned just below her beautiful full breasts, a white shirt and no bra.
Her nipple were always so hard you could hang your hardhat on them.
I followed her up six flights of steel stairs with 10 gals of paint while she carried two sheets of 4×8 1/2 plywood. My face was level with her backside all the way up, at the top floor she apologized for going so slow.
I laughed and said she provided my motivation to keep going. Not sure if she took that to be for me to keep up with her, or I was mesmerized by her tight ass, it was both really.
Union bossman told her she had to wear a bra as he felt her nipples were causing a distraction, she wore a bra the next day but she cut out the front of it so her nipples still showed.
A real woman makin’ it in a mans world.
We’re all equal until someone has to unload the groceries from the car.
Steeplejacks…….wondering if there has ever been a woman steeplejack in history.
Star- Ain’t that just the truth……..LOL
In 25 years ive not seen a female roofer.
James, you’ve hit it. I painted houses in college–but I was afraid to work on ladders. Mustafa, the very kind Turkish guy who was our crew boss, was sympathetic. He didn’t have a US drivers’ licence–I picked him up every morning. “Just scrape down there”–he’d point–I scraped every base board and kneewall our crew painted. He balanced off ladders three stories up. Great guy–I was very grateful–and I dealt with the clients, as they assumed he could not speak English.
Not one woman in 10 is cut out for men’s work. I wasn’t–just barely scraped by–and am grateful to every man who fixes things, delivers appliances to my house, and keeps the whole technological field going.
I wonder if gender equality is enforced on a certain $16,000000 security detail?