Very interesting read.
My mind starts going in different directions remembering stuff to find answers as to why in the 70s and 80s females in managerial positions were so b1tchy!
My most unpleasant interviews back then were with a female behind that desk.
Then this book came out how to be assertive, not aggressive!
Who was that aimed at
I recall a cartoon, 2 drawings.
One drawing was a tired looking mother looking a mess, stuck in the house, with a baby in arm and looking out the window enviously at a woman in smart work clothes and high heels going to work.
The other drawing was a tired working woman on way to work, enviously seeing in a window, a happy looking mother lovingly holding a baby.
Anyway, regarding women can do anything men can do, not everything due to physical size/strength.
I recently saw a congrats on my fb page with a daughter’s friend, whose 16 year old daughter is starting a diesel mechanic apprenticeship.
I told the husband, that’s such a dirty heavy industry to be in! (Hubby is that and more in the mechanical world) I’m forever washing his overalls in long wash cycle to get it remotely clean!
(50 years I’ve been washing overalls with diesel and oil stains)
Whether she will stick with it or be deterred and find different occupation, remains to be seen.
How she came to think it’s a good career is what I want to understand. I wish her well and success.
Especially since we’ve noticed mechanic jobs are not being filled as we see a decline in Australians willing to do a mechanic apprenticeship. I think everyone wants a soft job doing IT etc
Where hubby works they’ve had to pay $25,000 and go through 2 years of red tape to bring the mechanics in from overseas such as Phillipines/Indonesia etc.
I’m not sure if I’m going off track here
There are roles myself and my husband know what we can and can’t do!
And we accept it as such.
Recently we both went to bring a very heavy electric bed base in the house. It needed a step up and then somehow around a corner through 2 doorways.
He did half the clever stuff but I worked out to ditch the trolley on wheels and put a towel on floor and slide it around easier.
Well it worked, and I’m saying “who’s a clever little bunny?”
Sometimes he forgets I’m smaller and not as strong as he is and I do push and pull at heavy objects and makes me wonder how I ended up with a belly button hernia
My son ticks us off for not calling him and us being boomers, we just think we can do it on our own.
And the problem with that thinking is as we age and lose ability, we need to accept others that can help us.
Asking for help has always been our weakness.
Women as tradies.
We have a female electrician and she is fantastic! Up on the roof removing tiles to fix or add electric wiring. Her vehicle is a tradie vehicle with ladders and everything!
Stay at home dads while wife works:
That can be successful too. But takes a certain mentality for a man to do that full time.
I know one guy from our school days, his wife went from solicitor to became a judge earning really good money, and he did all the house husband stuff.
There are some blokey things I did, learning to weld with the weld mask on etc. I made wind chimes!
Reversing with a trailer I still haven’t done but I can reverse park a car better than hubby can! He reverses with a trailer real good though
Eh… got to give stuff in life a go, male or female.
Here’s a tik Tok that I can relate to
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSbJ7T5JF/I’ve had an after thought.
The way these gens from Z have become, all wanting to do soft internet jobs, is it any wonder that the blokey jobs are becoming non existent and hence how women can do what men do equally?
In my era of boomers and my dad’s era, it was very different where men had to be physically strong men.
All the hard yakka is done now and all that’s left is what?
Road works?
Oil rigs?
Driving big dump trucks?
Farming?
I’ve heard trucks and farming equipment can be remotely controlled now.
Technology is making what was once a man’s role disappear.
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