Re: male/female content of list >Bill>Vera

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Vera,

I know a couple of auto mechanics. I agree with Vera though when I

was in school we could only do home ec. I wanted to take shop! My

mother about died everytime I played football with the neighborhood

boys. She kept trying to tell me that I wasn't suppose to do those

things but I wouldn't listen. I still played after getting my nose

busted and 2 black eyes. My poor poor mother. lol

Love and hugs,

Belinda

> Bill:

> I would of loved to take auto mechanics in high school, but girls

weren't

> allowed to . also wanted to take plastic's but couldn't because I

wasn't a

> guy. When I was growning up all us girls were able to take at

school was

> things we would need when we became mothers and a housewife . Like

cooking

> and sewing. Only thing we got to learn in school about car's , was

how to

> take a tire off if we got a flat and that was only because my

teacher said

> woman need to know how to fix a flat.

> It was a woman mechanic who worked on Freds 32 -3 window coupe.

She was one

> because her father didn't stop her from being one. There are more

male nurses

> then there are female auto mechanics, but that only because they

mother's

> didn't stop them from becoming nurses. )

>

> Takecare

> Vera

> my attachment

> Vera,

>

> Actually the Bureau of Labor Statistics about 1995 had a report

that said

> only

> 3 % of auto mechanics were women. I don't remember the percentage

of women in

> the metalworking trades at the time, but seem to remember it was

just as low.

>

>

> I have known about 500 machinists in my life and only met one who

was a woman

> (serving in the U.S. NAvy). She was taking a course on metal

removal tools at

> the same time I was taking it in burg, VA. Out of the

ninety people

> who took the course, she was the only woman. I knew a couple of

women

> involved

> in drag racing in the late 1950's as mechanics and one who drove

dragsters

> (Shirley M).

>

> I know that pretty long blond hair would look awful with grease and

dirt from

> a

> working on the front end of a 1953 Ford replacing the ball joints

and tie rod

> ends. Looked bad enough in my short blond hair and took an hour to

wash out

> for a date (with a crewcut).

>

> How many women have you seen working as an auto mechanic? ) Don't

fib! I'll

> bet I have seen more male nurses than you have seen female auto

mechanics.

> )

> Think what working on a car does to your fingernails ) Note I did

NOT say

> they couldn't do the work - only that they did not do the work -

out of

> choice,

> probably.

>

> Take care, Bill Werre

>

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