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That's kind of moving the goal-posts; we were discussing construction, which, at least in my experience, has a lot less OSHA oversight. Probably it is differen
by douche 10y ago
That's kind of moving the goal-posts; we were discussing construction, which, at least in my experience, has a lot less OSHA oversight. Probably it is different in more unionized sectors as well; my experience is decidedly not - smaller logging, construction and power generation companies, where you often don't have the equipment to really do things correctly, for whatever reason, but it has to get done, and so brute strength and ignorance are resorted to.
- ryanx435 10y ago> we were discussing construction, which, at least in my experience, has a lot less OSHA oversight ok. obviously you have never worked construction. https://www.osha.gov/doc/index.html https://www.osha.gov/doc/index.html
- weberc2 10y agoPresumably he meant enforcement, and he was likely thinking more about residential construction.
- weberc2 10y ago> Those other blue-collar traditionally masculine jobs have a hard dependency on brute strength that most women can't satisfy. We were discussing construction in the broader context of blue-collar, masculine jobs. But it doesn't matter really, because if these physically-permissive jobs are still disproportionately male, then there is no reason to believe that the physical demands of construction are what keep women away.