When I worked at a large chain hardware store doing the accounting and then learning every dept. (including lumber but the guys had a rule, NO GIRLS running the forklift), I learned on the job how to design watering systems and could point the customers in our store to all the right parts and what they needed. I could do everything but that darn Electrical stuff. I knew what they needed but you should have seen the looks on the guys (customers) faces when they came in expecting an Electrician dude to help them and instead was a 90 lb petite blonde chic in college. lol I could make a key that worked with the best of them. Old style, not that computer crap they do now. BUT, no forklift for me. Lumber department guy rules (unwritten but followed) for gals. Probably something to do with the old-husbands tale of female drivers.
Come to think of it, I’ve only seen one female forklift driver, and she was darned good. The mgmt ‘promoted’ her to front office, so the guys would stop their griping. She didn’t drop a load, run down a propane cylinder, have one accident or tip-over, like all the other guys did on a regular basis. I taught her, and her record was second only to mine, which also PO’d the idiot guys. I was resented by the shop guys for making them look bad, although they didn’t need any help. Luckily, it was a summer college job, and I left in August for Sr year, never to return.