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San Diego females in construction
Fantasizing about Carpentry is fine and dandy but if its Rough Framing--and it's your livelihood- AND you're female- being skilled and qualified will get you nowhere. It doesn't matter if you look like a babe or if you look like a boy, the fact remains that Framing is the last construction trade where men allow and encourage each other against hiring or even addressing a woman applying for a job. There is no EOE hiring process. No conduct enforcement on the job site. No employer has to read a Managerial handbook on how to treat employees. It is the last and only trade where a Framing contractor can say right to your face in front of an entire job site of people, "What? ...A girl?!?! Tss...Yeah, Right. Get off my job site." Then, with everybody watching he will go run and hide behind his work truck. Wow, All I asked for was a job, one shot. And if by some miracle you do get hired -even for pick-up work, this is still a trade where it is viewed as acceptable for a man to behave in any sexist, harassing, unsafe or discriminating way he wants to and still keep his position at work. GUARANTEED. If you are a hard worker and skilled it IS a threat to somebody's manhood always. They will steal your purse to get u to retrieve it from them after work or wait til the right opportunity and bully you off the jobsite, unplugging your power and having full blown temper tantrums in front of other men who see it as perfectly acceptable to treat "a girl" this way. Or how bout this one... they wont let u work but they'll ask to use all of your tools and compressor because their first choice framer that they hired- doesn't have his own tools. Wow. The real shame is that girls are growing up being completely discouraged from becoming Framers in the construction industry. They aren't even aware its an option. Its not about brawn, its about technique and girls can build. They can walk the plate, pound nails and do physical labor just as efficiently and better than most men out there. Basically the only physical requirement is to NOT be lazy-and if you're built like a barbie doll or built like a boy --the only thing that actually matters is skill. I often hear," I don't want my men to be distracted [by a girl} on the job site." This is a safety issue? Well, nice try but girls are safer by nature. Ask the DMV. And if your men are so easily distracted and have no self control that they cant even function properly, Then THEY are the liability hazard who should NOT be in a dangerous working environment. Don't blame the girl. Its cowardly and unintelligent. 9 out of 10 men cant function just hearing the vibration of a vacuum cleaner. So will you hire a girl now? All I need is one shot, one day! Takes a real man to hire a woman. And a real secure woman upstairs, in a tight yellow skirt--to share her men, I guess.— August 10, 2014 10:31 a.m.