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I think this is still true of the West though. I have spent many, many years in Southeast Asia, and construction sites there are 50% female — I think it’s a str
by petesergeant 3y ago
I think this is still true of the West though. I have spent many, many years in Southeast Asia, and construction sites there are 50% female — I think it’s a stretch to suggest that’s normal in the West though.
That said, certainly in Thailand commercial driving is still very, very male dominated, and job ads will explicitly insist on men; I’d estimate less than 1/100 motorsai drivers I’ve seen were female, and 90% of those were “Tom”[0].
0: Kinda like F2M trans but also it’s own thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_identities_in_Thailand https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_identities_in_Thailan...
- gregjor 3y agoThailand's construction workers generally come from Cambodia or Myanmar. Not even Thai. Gender not relevant if they do the hard work for low pay. Female motosai (motorbike taxis) more than 1%. Really only a thing in Bangkok, where organized gangs run the motosai according to territory. Definitely mostly men doing that, and food/parcel delivery. I would guess that results from Thai women finishing school and attending university at a higher rate than Thai men, which leads to better jobs. Motosai sit close to the bottom of Thai jobs in prestige, pay, and education requirements.
- fennecfoxy 3y agoYup on point. When I worked in Singapore their workforce seemed to be exclusively Indian/malay/indo transitory workers, saw them loaded into the back of big wire-cages utes every morning driving to their worksites, don't think I saw a single chick on those trucks. It's a complex issue though, and the reasons for and current state of play varies _so_ much between countries that it's not even really worth comparing tbh.