Mind you, I have no problem with women carpenters, electricians, mechanics, etc. if that is what a specific woman wants to do. Its the quotas that the Women's Law Center would impose on us that are the problem.
Posted on 06/08/2002 7:29:43 AM PDT by FairWitness
Edited on 05/11/2004 10:58:00 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON - * Group's study 30 years after Title IX finds few women choose to be plumbers or electricians and more enroll in child care and cosmetology courses. Educators say societal stereotypes are partly to blame for the disparities.
Thirty years after Congress banned sex discrimination in schools, vocational training courses for high-wage skills like carpentry, welding and automotive repair remain virtually all-male preserves, a new study finds.
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Coming soon to a garage and/or cosmetology school near you - mandatory quotas for male and female employees.
Or maybe -- just maybe -- more women want to be cosmetologists than plumbers. Not a difficult concept, except for "educators" and the like.
Maybe this "gender disparity" isn't extrinsic, but INtrinsic. Maybe women are more disposed to careers in fashion, beauty, and sales, while men are more inclined to be tinkerers and builders.
But hey, let's just pretend everybody's the same, and that will make it so.
Mind you, I have no problem with women carpenters, electricians, mechanics, etc. if that is what a specific woman wants to do. Its the quotas that the Women's Law Center would impose on us that are the problem.
First, equal opportunity. Then, equal outcome. Social planners, unite!
Men in general seek to manipulate things (computers, trucks, boats, appliances, baseballs, money).
Women in general seek to manipulate people (spouses, children, parents, co-workers).
A man can spend five hours trying to fix something under the hood. A woman won't last more than 20 minutes. A woman can spend five hours talking out a relationship problem. A man won't talk more than 20 minutes.
Over time, both see how they can manipulate things to get what they want - to achieve what's important to them. But they each have their own agendas and that's what the National Women's Law Center fails to understand. (One could cynically say that they are trying to manipulate people to achieve their own agenda.)
Nor do they understand that men don't desire to be cosmotologists or day care workers, in part, because the jobs don't pay well and women won't respect them.
Your federal tax dollars at work against common sense.
The final solution.
Kind of reflects the % of gays in the country, no?...Just a quick analysis by me...hope I don't get a flaming flaming.
FMCDH
My daughter graduated with a Fine Arts degree from a very well known university in N.C.
As part of her studies she decided to take a course in welding....well, let me tell you....I went with her to a metal scrap yard to purchase some various parts for an assigned project. Good grief!! We got dirty just from walking around the place. YUK!
I asked her about the possible future of her using welding in her art works and she replied something like this:
" HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND MOM....THIS IS THE DIRTEST AND MOST DANGEROUS ART FORM I HAVE EVER DONE!! I HATE IT!!!! But, I am stuck for the semester...darn it... I was curious about this welding class and the Prof is nice..and you know, the old saying, curiousity killed the cat...well, I hope I am never this curious EVER again!!"
She does wonderful watercolors....that is her ART now....that and flower arranging.
As far as we know, NONE of her fellow female classmates choose the second art welding class and a gay fellow in the class, dropped out mid-semester and went to a school to become a hairdresser. He is QUITE successful now...owns 3 salons. Nice fellow.
Oh, I know....there MUST be many gals who do like to be dirty and have dirt under their fingernails and have that oily-greasy "glow" to their locks....and, let's hope they are very happy that way.
Gee, why don't some of those GAL educators who want gals to be welders and such....just give up their cushy clean jobs as "educators" to do those GREAT MONEY MAKING JOBS LIKE....welding, mechanics and plumbers???
OOOPS, I forgot....those that can't do...tell everybody else WHAT TO DO!!!!!
I actually have one of those (sort of) as a daughter! She has a biology/anthropology double major B.S. and is never so happy as when she is cutting her way through a rain forest, looking for an endangered bird or animal to study. She has spent a total of one year, spread over Hawaii, Australia and Madagascar, in rain forests. She is currently in what may in some ways is turning out to be the most dangerous field assignment yet, in Mississippi (poisonous snakes, flooded habitat, alligators)! She cleans up nice between field trips, but loves the outdoors. My neatnik son can't imagine doing that kind of thing, but is the prototypical "tool guy" who works with his hands for a living.
Those liberals want the girls to be boys and the boys to be whimps....and, homosexuals...well, they sure want to see more of them around...MORE DATES FOR EXISTING ONES, perhaps!!
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