Yeah, just gotta luv these delusional women who claim they don't need men. Until something breaks that requires a plumber, carpenter, electrician or mechanic. Contrary to popular opinion, HR departments do not make the world go round.
The below book was written by just such a woman. Pretty sure most of you know who she is. Apparently, she only needs men to sue.
Fun fact: What percentage of women are plumbers? I googled the answer and it said 3.5%. Which is slightly higher than the 1% I would have guessed. No doubt all those old, white plumbers built a glass ceiling to keep out all those women clamoring to join their profession. Or something.
I recall grandfather saying that if you can't figure out who farted, it's probably you. This lady has been sexually assaulted, according to her and the courts, like more times than any person in history. Weird right?
You know though, to the point about women plumbers. In my three plants in the US I have a total of 300 employees today, some 200-250 or so are in operations (forklift drivers, machine operators, mechanics, chemists), and say 50-100 are in sales and clerks and accounting, or management. I am required by law to no discriminate based on sex, and believe me, I completely get the dynamic and benefits of having women in the workplace. I actively ask my HR managers about their success in hiring females into operations, and each time they (these are women HR managers) giggle like they know I'm asking a stupid question. Even in my Indeed job postings, we make it a point to mention how much we want women in the plants. I personally go to votech schools and community colleges in the towns where my plants are, to recruit, and I put a little extra effort into encouraging females to apply. What percentage of the operations and what percentage of the "office" do you think women occupy? Yea. Currently between three plants there are four women in operations. Four. Two of them are janitors. In "office", I don't have these stats now but when I walk in there it's all butts and boobies.
Why can this be? Is 2024, women have been liberated for three generations at least, and women make up 50% or more of these towns' populations. Why aren't women applying to these jobs? Well, based on feedback from HR and operations managers, women either don't take the positions or take them and leave within 30 days for these reasons: dirty, noisy, lifting, smell, hot, concrete floors, "afraid of chemicals". In each plant, every time I open an Indeed job I get more than 200 resumes in a few hours and fill positions very quickly. With men. If women are equal, why wouldn't they do these jobs? Except for management, all my operations jobs pay at least 30% more than non-operations positions. If someone took my plant's salary data and sex ratio and charted them, all I'd hear for a hundred years from Dept of Labor is that I have a "glass ceiling" and a "wage gap". It's completely true, women in my plant earn on average 23% less than men. But, they take, of their own free will, positions which pay 23% less. Not my problem. Again, I want women in the plant, but I also need to produce and sell product. I can't just hold a position open for a thousand years waiting for a woman to apply and keep the job.
So, anyone want to argue that there are NO jobs that are only for men? Or are women making conscious decision to not take these higher paying jobs because they are women by nature, regardless of if they are as butch as they come on the outside?
