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Fracking boom creates jobs for women — but only as prostitutes and maids, activist claims
The Washington Times ^ | April 20, 2015 | Valerie Richardson

Posted on 04/20/2015 3:43:54 PM PDT by CedarDave

A key figure behind New York’s statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing says that losing out on oil and gas jobs is no big deal because the industry only creates work for women as prostitutes and hotel maids.

In an April 6 lecture at the University of Pittsburgh, biologist Sandra Steingraber of New Yorkers Against Fracking described the fight over oil and natural gas development as a feminist issue.

“Fracking as an industry serves men. Ninety-five percent of the people employed in the gas fields are men. When we talk about jobs, we’re talking about jobs for men, and we need to say that,” said Ms. Steingraber in a video posted on YouTube by the industry-backed group Energy in Depth.

“The jobs for women are ‘hotel maid’ and ‘prostitute,’” she says. “So when fracking comes into a community, what we see is that women take a big hit, especially single women who have children who depend on rental housing.”

Supporters of the industry swung back by citing a 2014 report from the American Petroleum Institute, which found that women filled 226,000 oil, gas and petrochemical industry jobs, or 19 percent.

The report predicts job opportunities will grow for female and male petroleum engineers, managers and others by 70,000 from 2010 to 20130.

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Ms. Steingraber’s comments come amid a push by environmental groups to cast hydraulic fracturing as part of the “war on women,” which industry critics dismiss as the latest anti-fracking tactic. Foes have also blamed fracking for an increase in bar fights and drug abuse.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: energy; feminist; fracking; liberalagenda; newyork; pennsylvania; sandrasteingraber; waronwomen
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The latest anti-fracking tactic by knee-jerk environmental activist groups: Labeling fracking as part of the "war on women."
1 posted on 04/20/2015 3:43:54 PM PDT by CedarDave
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To: CedarDave

Prostitutes?

What happened to the politically correct euphemism, “sex workers”?


2 posted on 04/20/2015 3:45:38 PM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: CedarDave

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3 posted on 04/20/2015 3:46:52 PM PDT by CedarDave (Bush vs. Clinton in 2016? If you have a 24-year old car, the bumper stickers are still good!)
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To: CedarDave

That seems pretty intolerant and sexist towards prostitutes and maids.


4 posted on 04/20/2015 3:47:33 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: CedarDave

“Jobs for men”? Is she supposed to be a feminist? Or is she the usual feminist hypocrite who never thinks of checking the on the percentages of women working as sewer workers?


5 posted on 04/20/2015 3:47:51 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Westbrook

What’s a Steingraber? Sounds like some kind of BDSM device


6 posted on 04/20/2015 3:47:56 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: CedarDave

More women than men graduate from our universities — are none of them engineers?


7 posted on 04/20/2015 3:48:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: CedarDave

Precocious leftists say the darndest things


8 posted on 04/20/2015 3:48:59 PM PDT by GeronL (Clearly Cruz 2016)
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To: CedarDave

Well yoga brings lots of fruits to the neighborhood but I don’t protest that


9 posted on 04/20/2015 3:49:20 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: CedarDave

Even if this were true, is being a maidca better job Tha not having a job at all?


10 posted on 04/20/2015 3:51:31 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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Fracking boom creates jobs for women — but only as prostitutes and maids, activist claims

I'm sure no wives or children are supported by the men that work in the fracking industry.

If they are, I sure hope they get what they deserve... (in the dreams of Leftists everywhere)

/s

11 posted on 04/20/2015 3:54:08 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question, Jeb Bush? The answer: NO! Rove, is a devious propagandist & enemy of Conservatives!)
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Bitter and cynical about economic booms huh. It is to laugh. If it needs 1 second to put together a logical thought, this accusation must have needed 1/2 second to come up with.


12 posted on 04/20/2015 3:54:14 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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Funny, that’s not what I have heard. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/MadeInAmerica/breaking-ground-oil-boom-draws-women-industry/story?id=16312609


13 posted on 04/20/2015 3:54:32 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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A man needs a maid.


14 posted on 04/20/2015 3:55:37 PM PDT by AlmaKing
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Something wrong with maids? My house could use one.


15 posted on 04/20/2015 3:55:59 PM PDT by AlmaKing
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To: DoughtyOne

Wives! Daughters! What are you, some troglodyte PATRIARCHY MONGER?

It was these liberals who said it was so wonderful to characterize women as sexpots, and then turned around and complained about the demoralizing consequences!


16 posted on 04/20/2015 3:56:08 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: RightGeek

Don’t confuse us with the FACTS dude.


17 posted on 04/20/2015 3:56:35 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Westbrook

I had no idea the three female engineers down the hall were prostitutes or maids.


18 posted on 04/20/2015 3:57:48 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
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To: Westbrook

When they were building the Alaska pipeline a friend of my dad’s said if he was a woman he would head for Alaska and make his F’n fortune. ;^)


19 posted on 04/20/2015 3:58:19 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: Westbrook

According to Wikipedia, Sandra Steingraber “..is an American biologist, author, and cancer survivor in the tradition of Rachel Carson. Steingraber writes and lectures on the environmental factors that contribute to reproductive health problems and environment.” She’s 57 so she’s way past her prime ....


20 posted on 04/20/2015 3:58:45 PM PDT by Ken522
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