Bin-women, a job?

[TheViewFromTheCheapSeats]

Other thread reminded me of this.

Aibu to think there’s practically zero women employed working on refuse lorries? They park up near my house, multiple crews over the years, yet I never see women there or at the tip (except for the shop).

Most jobs have women now, if I walk past a construction site it’s certainly male dominated still but I do see some women. I never ever see female refuse collectors.

Is it just my area?

As someone else said, it’s quite a sort after job for many.

There’s some in my area.

All though my son asked the other day why there are no women security guards

Not seen any on the bins, but the local tip / recycling centre has several.

I've not seen any no, but neither do I ever see women on building sites, or driving tractors (lots around here)! Still a long way to go.

There is a woman on the crew that do our bins in north London.

There was a woman at our tip the other day, but I agree that it's rare.

I also met a female Sky engineer a few weeks ago, which is also probably rare.

Conversely, just about all dental nurses are female, and most of the men who are registered DNs are actually dentists who qualified overseas and are in the process of studying to pass UK dentist exams.

@TurnUpTurnip interesting, here there’s loads of female security guards! Probably a 40-60 split female-male

There was 2 women who used to work on the recycling lorry but I've not seen them since the vehicle changed.

There's two that I know of in my LA. It is a joke b were core/hand strength and height make a difference. The wage is equivalent to warehousing, if not a bit less and there is an even split in our warehouses.

I have a female friend who works on the bins. She seems to really enjoy her job. I think the rest of her crew are men.

There is a woman on the crew who empty my bins.
I've seen plenty of female security guards around too.

My DD used to work in security when she was at college. "Did the doors" and also gigs.

Not seen any.

But our Tesco delivery driver this week was a woman and she made a better job of getting crates up our path and steps than most of the guys who arrive at the door sweating and puffing!

I can’t say as being a binwoman would particularly appeal to me.

And it’s well-known that if men train as dental nurses their willies fall off.

@BarbaraofSeville

Two of my neighbours had a female Sky engineer turn up too.

There's 2 on my route that I see on a regular basis!

I personally used to work security for pubs and clubs, loved it except for the occasional black eye!

There was a woman on the bin crew when I was at my old house, Greater London. Also a woman at the recycling centre. Defo more men, but there are a few women doing the jobs.

Well I work on a building site and can tell you there are lots of us! There is a lack of women in senior leadership roles (on site, there are loads in head office), and through discussions we realised this was predominantly down to the long hours, lack of flexible working and inability to work around childcare (site hours are 0800-1800). Senior leadership roles tend be from late 30s onwards - prime time for having children whether babies or young school age. Refuse collectors also seem to have quite unsociable hours, this could be a contributing factor.

There is a women who does our bins and another one who works at the tip. Last week there was a women carrying out maintenance on the playground equipment in our local park. There are few women who work for our local Sainsbury’s as delivery drivers - have done for a while.

We have a bin-woman! Now it’s a less physical job (because the bins are lifted by the lorry) there’s no reason a woman can’t do it.

I see women engineers, construction sites, delivery drivers etc. It’s just the refuse lorries that stand out.
Maybe it’s also a culture/ hiring attitude with my local council…

@Fulmar

There is a woman on the crew that do our bins in north London.

I’m in north London, we have a woman on our route, she drives the van/lorry, we’re in a flat so ours is a different pick up style.

There was certainly one where I lived in England - they even let her drive the lorry too.

Possibly because physical strength counts? . It’s a valuable job, and I think of that when university lecturers are sitting at home again complaining about something or other - again.

Working on the waste industry I can confirm it definitely still IS a very physically demanding job.

Whilst the front line workers collecting the bins are predominantly male (99%) the 'office based' supervisory and managerial staff is packed full of women.

Women just don't apply for the front line roles, which are advertised as 'waste operatives' not 'bin men/ women'

[quote TheViewFromTheCheapSeats]@TurnUpTurnip interesting, here there’s loads of female security guards! Probably a 40-60 split female-male[/quote]
Really, must just be different areas then, where we live I can’t think of one female security guard in any of the shops we go to