To say that most heavy duty physical labour is done by men? When was the last time a female plumber, builder, roofer,painter and decorator, drain unblocker, or boiler or washing machine engineer came to your house?

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To say that most heavy duty physical labour is done by men?

Tee hee! 😂

What's the average salary of a gas engineer? Lots of manual labour, fair but of technical Information to learn.

What's the average salary of a nurse? Fair bit of manual labour, fair bit of technical information to learn.

12 hour shifts, antisocial hours, call outs. Big salary difference between the traditionally male and traditionally female roles... Yet women, were the problem right? We're the ones pushing for this set up!

Care to address this question OP or are you just being a goady knob?

Maybe these posters come here for free femme domme humiliation.

Non issue OP.
Lots of men are happy and willing to do the jobs you listed. There are many jobs that are preferred by women as PPs have also listed.
fwiw I have had a female decorator when I had my house refurbished a couple of years ago and there is a family firm local to me and the daughter is a heating engineer the same as her father and brother.
Just because you have never had a female tradie in your house, doesn't mean they don't exist.
If men didn't want to do or couldn't do these jobs then of course women would step in to get them done. That's what happened from 1914 to 1918 and 1939 to 1945. Different strokes for different folks. Good job we don't all want to be roofers isn't it as there wouldn't be enough jobs to go round!

I used a female heating engineer recently. Three male engineers had been out and failed to fix our boiler but she fixed it and we've had no problems since.

My sister is a plumber, so I make a point to use female trades. A female decorator is a lot better and tidier but I have found females are actually a higher price than men. A local female tiler charges £500 a day and is perfection.
It is hard work physically for a woman, especially once you have children and whatnot - typically trades are an early start. I’d like to see more women get into trade though.

I'm a painter and decorator. Career change just before COVID (unfortunate timing but never looked back).

I've had a female painter and decorator who painted my hall, stairs and landing. She actually worked for a building firm painting their new builds.
I've also had a plumber who came with a female apprentice.

Well I do my own decorating/plumbing/drains/appliance repair and servicing (where legally allowed to), so there's that.. When I last had new tires fitted the fitter was a woman - car wheels are pretty heavy.

You know that men, on average, are significantly stronger than women right? So for a start, any job requiring strength, a man would be more suitable for (especially grip strength - which I definitely suffer with when sorting out undoing stuff under the sink etc). There's also the added danger to a lone woman going into people's houses, although there's mitigations they can make.

I would be happy to hire a woman do do any of these jobs though - in fact probably more happy, as a single mother, as it's always a worry when you invite strangers into your house.

@Barnbrack , theoretically they shouldn't have to, but then the same goes for any man that doesn't feel like it too. The only way to change the mysogyny is from within - after my thick skin the 2 workplaces I was the first woman in became much more female-friendly afterwards; with one becoming female dominant, solely because the 'owners' discovered that women actually did the job better (hardly surprising as women are very good and efficient workers!).

What on earth is the point of this thread. Has anyone worked this out yet? Sorry not read everything. Oh, by the way, I am a much better driver than my husband, can drive trucks, horse lorries, pull trailers etc - he can barely steer a bike.. But then again he's not a plumber or electrician or builder or any of the other things in the OP

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as it's always a worry when you invite strangers into your house.

For sure. I'm not overly anxious about it but it is definitely a weird situation to just open up the door and have random men in the house, especially if you're home alone.

Wriggling about down drains and on roofs seems more like it would attract gymnasts and mountaineers. Martina Navratilova is a tennis player. OP needs to change sports.

Only devil women with horns and hooves
Want to clambour about on rooves
Only women who laugh at men's pains
Want to hog the unclogging of drains
*traditional Berkshire wisdom rhyme

To be fair, that is a job we women can't do.

Not with our own dick, anyway.

I saw a female tree feller last week so YABU.

I personally know a woman painter and decorator, 2 women plumbers/gas fitters and a woman electrician.

They are all making an absolute fortune as most of their jobs come from women who live alone and dont want to risk having a man they dont know in their houses. The plumbers in particular are so heavily in demand that they are booked up months and months in advance.

A girl I was at school with is now a P&D. She saw a gap in the market for people uncomfortable with males in their home.

An engineer was at my home a few months ago doing work on cables. I’d say that was heavy work.

We have a pair of female decorators…

I've had a female roofer🙋

But do they have a pair of Ample Plums

My sister retrained as a carpenter in the early 90's. The shit she had to put up with had to be seen to be believed. Just at college there was abuse 'high jinx' such as dildo's in her work bag, porn mags, used condoms, seriously bullying behaviour every single day. She worked on the only site that would take her at the time, even climbing on the roof to work with not scaffolding or safety equipment. They didn't have single sex facilities though, those were the days before it was law to provide toilets for both sexes. How she got through it I'll never know but she went self employed asap. I wonder why more women don't want to go through that?

I can employ men to do these things.

The 1950s called, they want their attitudes back.

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