Why do you never see female bin collectors?

meeeeh

Omackeral wrote: »

The irony is staggering. If you're going to be bitter and narky towards somebody while attacking their intellect, at least get your own spellings right.

It was a typo but even if it wasn't I hope you are as good spelling in your second language as I am.

Feisar

Google: "female bin collectors Brazil"

Omackeral

meeeeh wrote: »

It was a typo but even if it wasn't I hope you are as good spelling in your second language as I am.

I'm not as rude in my second language as you are anyway! Au revoir, Adios, Slán, Arrivederci, Прощай, Auf Wiedersehen

Fifty grades of shay.

Dumb doesent mean stupid!
But anyway there's a huge difference in perception of what men and women can do in certain aspects of life, there should be no argument there no matter which side of the debate you are on.
The important thing is that both should certainly be equally ly respected and paid equally if both doing the same job.
There is still huge differences on that aspect of it.

weldoninhio

tuxy wrote: »

But they don't.

Don’t tell them that. The gender pay gap is one of feminazism’s main pillars.

lainey_d_123

Huntergonzo wrote: »

'Equality' only matters when it comes to high paid jobs, nobody wants equality for low paid or dangerous jobs.

Absolute horsesh1t. Again, the vast majority of nurses and care workers are female. The vast majority of the best paid are men. Most CEOs are men, most politicans are men, most lawyers are men, most people in IT are men. And yet for some reason, there is a subsection of men who will take one badly paid (and it isn't even that badly paid) male-dominated field and use it as an example of how downtrodden poor old men are. You're deluded.

WoollyRedHat

DaithiMa wrote: »

Is it just me that still calls them binmen? Or more usually 'The Binman'. Apologies in advance if that offends anyone.

There's two types of people in this world, Binary and Non-Binary.

FTA69

Omackeral wrote: »

If that was true, you would have opened with that. Just suits a nice harrasment narrative to put it in the story.

It's chronic though. I used to work in the union with refuse lot in Enfield and Newham council and there were a few women working in both places who told me it was often an uncomfortable place to be with a lot of sexualised banter etc. And these were tough working class women not whingebags who couldn't take a joke.

lainey_d_123

FTA69 wrote: »

It's chronic though. I used to work in the union with refuse lot in Enfield and Newham council and there were a few women working in both places who told me it was often an uncomfortable place to be with a lot of sexualised banter etc. And these were tough working class women not whingebags who couldn't take a joke.

God forbid men would have to acknowledge that this is one of the major reasons women avoid such work. I posted early in the thread about a woman I know who was harassed in this job and was called a liar. She was also a tough working class Dublin woman, and in her late forties, so not a naive snowflake by any means. It's amazing the lengths some men will go to to avoid addressing the truth.

FTA69

lainey_d_123 wrote: »

God forbid men would have to acknowledge that this is one of the major reasons women avoid such work. I posted early in the thread about a woman I know who was harassed in this job and was called a liar. She was also a tough working class Dublin woman, and in her late forties, so not a naive snowflake by any means. It's amazing the lengths some men will go to to avoid addressing the truth.

True but often white collar jobs aren’t much better. Try being a female city trader for instance.

Fifty grades of shay.

Just a funny one on this, our bin collection lorry broke down today just down the road from me.
I noticed that as the mechanics, we're working on it, one of them was a female.

freshpopcorn

We should contact Mary Mitchell O'Connor to come up with a scheme!

DEFTLEFTHAND

freshpopcorn wrote: »

We should contact Mary Mitchell O'Connor to come up with a scheme!

Get her to drive a bin lorry down the steps of Leinster House.

Make a big statement, let the entire waste disposal world know that times are changing.

riclad

I don,t think women apply for those type of jobs,
if they want a basic job, they,ll work in a shop, hotel, cafe,
there are female mechanic,s , electricians , drivers,
they are high status jobs with good pay.
When computers were invented , mainframes etc in the 60s, 50 plus per cent of the programmers were women .
At that time using pcs or computers was seen as low status ,like
working in a office , doing paperwork.
Now programming is a high status job , and anyone can buy a laptop 80 per cent of programmers are men.
Thats one of the themes of the film about nasa women programmers .
Hidden figures.
You could say the same about hair salons,
i have never seen a man working in a hair salon where
the customers are all female .
Women tend to avoid certain jobs, i,ve never seen a female coal miner .