Working Women

[LouNY]

Could she kick your ass?

most certainly,

 

[ruffdog]

Could she kick your ass?

Not surprising you are still in playground mode....I gave up thinking that way YEARS ago....grow up.

 

[Jstpssng]

I was in NAPA today. The clerk who waited on me went upstairs to get me a radiator hose. Three guys were standing around talking. There was a woman out back putting parts away, and another putting more parts out in the front of the store.

For some reason it made me think of this thread.

 

[Mtsoxfan]

I'm retired from teaching at a tech high school. The girls there rock, in all trades...

 

[ruffdog]

I was in NAPA today. The clerk who waited on me went upstairs to get me a radiator hose. Three guys were standing around talking. There was a woman out back putting parts away, and another putting more parts out in the front of the store.

For some reason it made me think of this thread.

Yep, I also know a woman that has been a parts person for about 47 years now. When I need parts there, she is definitely the person I want to get the right parts.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

 

[dfkrug]

I highly recommend the Rosie the Riveter Historical Park and museum in Richmond, CA. It has been a few years since the wife and I last went, but we did get to talk to some bona fide nonagenarian Rosies.

Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)

Celebrate and honor the contributions and sacrifices of American civilians on the WWII home front. Discover how diverse communities lived, worked, and interacted. Many faces, many stories, many truths, weave a rich tapestry of experiences from this era of opportunity and loss.

www.nps.gov

In the East Bay, Rosies were actually not riveters, mostly, but weldors. They built liberty ships (Victory Ships). As someone interested in the history of technology, I asked Qs about what welders they used, and details about their tools. None remembered these specifics, sadly.

 

[WinterDeere]

As someone interested in the history of technology, I asked Qs about what welders they used, and details about their tools. None remembered these specifics, sadly

This is probably going to sound worse than intentended, but they probably never knew those specifics. Women working in these tech roles are often just more interested in getting the job done, than digging into the tools and background.

Back when I was running R&D for a tech company, I loved having a few female employees in the usually all-male department, because they just got sh*t done, in a way most guys never could. You'd give them tools and instructions, and they'd just plow through the work.

By contrast, the male technicians would always want to know how and why everything worked, or to find a better way to build that mousetrap. But because they didn't really have the background or understanding to know any better, they were always more likely to screw up the job, than the women who just did it the way they were told.

Much more importantly though, was that the women didn't have an ego that prevented them from telling me when they had a question about a job. The number of times I lost a week or a month from a project, because a male tech was unsure of a requirement and just quietly made their best (wrong) guess at it, are too numerous to count. Conversely, the women would almost always point out their questions or doubts, so these things could be caught and corrected, before they caused massive problems down the road.

So, I always liked having female tech employees, from the standpoint of efficiency and error avoidance. The fact that they were more fun to look at as well, was just a bonus.

 

[RayIN]

I've never watched a utube video where the woman was all sweaty, greasy and dirty from working on something. Seems like all of them are in clean clothes, even their hands are clean.
If a mechanic removed pistons like this he'd be fired.

 

[dfkrug]

Much more importantly though, was that the women didn't have an ego that prevented them from telling me when they had a question about a job. The number of times I lost a week or a month from a project, because a male tech was unsure of a requirement and just quietly made their best (wrong) guess at it, are too numerous to count. Conversely, the women would almost always point out their questions or doubts, so these things could be caught and corrected, before they caused massive problems down the road.

Interesting observation.

Generalizations are notable and sometimes useful, tho many folks insist on pointing out an exception they have met.

Anyway, I have volunteered for 10 years now in a middle school "maker space", showing 6-8 graders how to make things with tools. Often power tools. It has been a bit over half girls over the years.

They have a huge range of exposure to tools and making things, but most don't even know how to hammer a nail or screw in a screw. A few will bluff and say they know how to do something, but they are not often correct. The bluffers are always boys.