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Justice for Men & Boys 
P……ng down today. Just down the road four workmen (water utlities) are busy dealing with a burst pipe. I mused that working in such conditions seems rarely to be a female choice. Certainly not since my teenage when “Rosie the Riveter” was all the rage and there was a push to get girls into trades. In the intervening 50 years there have been endless campaigns of the same sort. Now of course we have a Gov. promising to build 1000s of homes. Oblivious it seems to fact that one of the crucial factors in the failure to do so for decades is a shortage of skilled workers. What experience has shown us is that whatever the incentives applied there has not been a shift in the % of females in the dirty, dangerous, skilled, lonely and “unsocial” occupations. Even in the continued “woke” recruiting for the army the female looks forward to playing women’s football. While the male looks forward to learning how to wire a house, a skilled trade.
At some point maybe someone will get real and simply target recruitment to trades etc. at the sorts of people proven to be interested. I think it completely unlikely that suddenly manufacturing, building, infrastructure etc. will suddenly appeal to the fairer sex.
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