A Question For You............

Diminuendo

Diminuendo

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I was having a chat with someone today and the subject of jobs came up. After some discussion, the person I was chatting with asked if there was a job that a woman couldn't do?
It got me thinking. Are there any female farriers out there? I have never seen one.
 
In the UK there are approximately 2800 qualified farriers and about 20 of these are female
 
Funny you should mention that, Dim, as my farrier is female. She's only been qualified a few years but I hitnk she's pretty good - very adept at improving poor feet and takes alot of pridein her work.

And contrary to what Muttley says about htem being built like....... , my b/f says our farrier scrubs up pretty well.
 
I suppose you're asking about women in general in the UK, Dims? There are hundreds of jobs in various parts of the world that women can't do because they're not allowed to, due to religious or other cultural restrictions - for example, teach boys in Muslim schools.

I'm not sure about female scaffolders, but women are taught how to tile roofs, lay bricks, mix concrete, and so on. Hod-carrying might prove a bit difficult, because we've got to remember that unless we're on anabolic steroids, our muscle groups are different to a man's, although any of us who've lumped wheelbarrowfuls of muck have built up pretty decent biceps! It's no good us wimminfolk saying we can do ANY job, though, if the job is truly beyond the limits of our physique (just as it might be beyond a weakling man's).

It's great, the strides that women have been able to make, even if it took aggressive feminism, stroppiness and bad behaviour to eventually get men to relinquish their attitudes to what women were capable of doing. We now have the equal right to risk our lives in the line of police, armed forces, and fire-fighting duties, to aspire to business-owning (in our OWN names!), training racehorses (ditto!), to drive HGVs, become mechanics, surgeons, dentists, pilots, bus drivers, astronauts, film directors, architects, and all the hundreds of jobs once considered 'unsuitable for a woman'. And what's really great, is that we now don't have to come from extremely wealthy backgrounds to shore up our endeavours, or to be amazingly brilliant. We can now do lots of ordinary, normal jobs which were also denied us due to sex discrimination. :)
 
Did you know, though, that 19.7 per cent of MPs are women? You might think that this is pretty healthy until you realise it marks Britain's fall out of the top 50 countries for female political representation. It also means we've been out-performed by those hotbeds of feminist radicalism, Rwanda, Iraq and Afghanistan. Was that what the invasions were about - we needed information on how to treat our women more fairly?
 
My first reaction was..........well you don't see many women coalminers , but of course in the late 19th century there was nothing unusual about wommen being employed in the mines and children of course.

Think it's more a question would you want to see your wife or daughter having to do a job like that to live.

If a women wants to do a job and proves she is physically capable of doing it, I can see no boundaries.
 
:( No, you sure don't.

The daftest thing is, women still work in brickfields in India, for example, sorting and carrying huge loads of the darn things. These women are tiny, all tendons and bone, and then back in the UK, there's some huge bint trying to lose weight by going to a gym, at enough expense to buy out several of these women for a year. Jobs for women are relative to the society they're born into, religious constraints, poverty in particular, and the economy of the country they live in. Working equally, side by side, doing the back-breaking job of planting and harvesting rice in the rice-growing countries, plus having babies, looking after the other kids, cooking, cleaning the hut, doing the washing after drawing the water by hand and making the fire from scratch is one extreme side of the 'woman's work' coin. Her 'pay' is to be able to eat, and help her family to survive. The other side is to be Ann Summers, or Martha Stewart, or Delia Smith.
 
Who am I to be in a position to forgive? You do not need forgiveness from me. You stated an opinion which I found upsetting. I didn't for a moment imagine you set out to upset me or anyone else. My over-sensitivity is my problem and hopefully the therapy will help in the longer term.
 
You're right, DO - I didn't set out to upset you. I never set out to upset anyone. It's just a gift which comes entirely naturally. :D
 
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