Posted on 06/12/2019 10:50:08 AM PDT by bgill
Thirteen middle-school-age girls are spending the week learning valuable skills as a precursor to possible careers in the construction industry.
The group will build and wire their own lamps, pour concrete and build a free library stand over the course of the week in a bid from the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) to recruit more girls into the industry early.
"There's just not a lot of talk about what opportunities are out there, and that's kind of our goal is to show the kids what else there could be," said Jordan Moore, a specialist at plumbing supplier Ferguson Enterprises and board member at NAWIC's Austin chapter.
Moore started in the industry when she decided she'd rather start her career than stay in college. She became a plumber's apprentice, going to clients' houses and working with her hands. "It was very satisfying work," she said, once she got past the initial double-take.
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My niece is a welder...skipped college and student loans...been gainfully employed for at least 5 years. ..her cousin just graduated from law school with humongous debt.
I refused to take homemaking and was the first girl they’d ever had in our high school agriculture class. The male teachers just couldn’t handle me welding on the class trailer project (man’s work) so had me teaching the boys how to weld.
BTW, the way to tell the difference between bulls and cows is cows have, uh, more feminine faces....
now how are they gonna do this work in high heels and ankle length dresses?
... and walking backwards? Women construction workers should be bull dykes, if it’s going to work.
[[befor jumping into it and then expecting others to do the work for them.]]
No no, they will make others do the job they should be able to do themselves, then declare themselves construction workers- equality without the ability and all that- (Note, yes some women can easily carry 50 lbs- or wheel a wheelbarrow full of cement that weighs 100’s of lbs- many can’t though)
That was cute and click-worthy. Thanks.
Most women can’t even change a flat, much less figure out how to use power tools.
No way that I could ever have done this.
Women have always been in the front offices of construction sites. I remember going for a job interview in one of those trailers when I was very young.
[[Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.]]
Zen amounts to ‘wasted effort with nothing to show for it’ lol
:)
As long as they aren’t using tax dollars, I don’t mind.
However, I think it is a waste of time. How many decades have they been saying females are being actively discouraged from going into various STEM field, and they have all these programs to encourage them, make them feel valued, opening opportunities and so on.
But there are some fields women don’t really have a propensity to go into...and likewise for men.
For years, I recall hearing about females in sports, and how the only reason they weren’t competing on the same field as men is because they have been discouraged from certain sports. But men still finish 10-15 ahead of women, though they have been running marathons en masse for decades.
I see this as being similar in some ways.
I watch that show Restaurant Impossible with Chef Robert Irvine which has some really attractive young women knocking down walls and replastering other ones. I guess they are really interior designers.
I had a woman laborer foreman that away from the jobsite would hit on anything with two legs, male or female.
In 50 years, I hired and/or promoted a number of women in construction. Women designers, subcontracting company owners, project managers, foremen and tradesman.
By the way, everyone, a “50 lb. sack of cement” makes no sense. A bag of portland cement is a cubic foot and weight is 94 lbs. It is hardly ever “carried around a jobsite” as its mixed at a plant.
A pre-mix bag of Sackcrete or similar with sand and aggregate that pre-measured for field use with water is 60 pounds typically.
There are bags of mortar mix etc. and your mileage may vary if you floss regularly.
The big ole elephant in the room is that construction jobs in much of the country are completely dominated by men who speak very little English and expect to get paid in cash. These men come from a culture (and all cultures are equal, remember) that definitely has hard lines drawn on what is men’s work and what is women’s work.
Even electricians do some heavy lifting. Unless you think that they be excused all of that?
see my #35
I’ve employed on job sites women in about every trade. That first laborer foreman I spoke of could work most men into the ground. I can’t say I’ve seen many women masons, but I have seen hod carriers and mason tenders who were women.
Setting masonry off a scaffold requires the most upper body foot pounds of effort per shift of any trade on a regular basis.
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