[tbw2]

Yet I fail to see equal numbers of women working as construction workers, firemen, maintenance workers, welders, farmers and other jobs on which civilization is built. Or even the programming, computer networking, computer troubleshooting or cable laying that is the backbone of the internet.
While women moving into the service sector, low skill manufacturing, and clerical work improve the economy and their image, it doesn't replace the need for the hard physical labor. What Mike Rowe calls Dirty Jobs and the backbone of civilization - and they are overwhelmingly done by men. We've done two generations a dis-service by demeaning skilled physical labor, which cannot be done by robots. And work such as repairing diesel engines, plumbing repair, electrical work, assembling servers, masonry, truck drivers, oil rig workers and such, cannot be done by someone who walks across the border with a fifth grade education. More education, training and language skills are required. We'd improve our economy, deteriorating infrastructure and unemployment rate by moving a lot of under-employed college grads into those fields - and treating them as well as those who have a four year degree instead of assuming they are the dirty lower class.

[Farnsworth]

college is not the answer for everything, trades are now equally important.
I agree, hard physical labor is done predominantly by men. I do see women holding a flag when their is road construction.
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